Statistics for health policy and administration using Microsoft Excel / James E. Veney
Material type: TextSeries: Jossey-Bass health care seriesPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2003Description: xviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0787964581
- 9780787964580
- 610/.285 22
- RA409.5 .V466 2003
- 2003 O-648
- W 84.1
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Main library Nursing Buliding | RA409.5 .V466 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | N4214 |
Includes bibliographical references and index
Excel as a statistical tool -- Data acquisition: sampling and data preparation -- Data display: descriptive presentation, Excel graphing capability -- Basic concepts of probability -- Measures of central tendency and dispersion: data distributions -- Confidence limits and hypothesis testing -- Statistical tests for categorical data -- t tests for related and unrelated data -- Analysis of variance -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression: concepts and calculation -- Extensions of multiple regression -- Analysis with a dichotomous categorical dependent variable
This book provides an introduction to the use of statistics in health policy and health administration related fields. It is keyed to the powerful statistical tool Microsoft Excel and shows how to prepare data and understand the data display capabilities of the program.--[book cover]
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