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Veney, James E

Statistics for health policy and administration using Microsoft Excel / James E. Veney - xviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Jossey-Bass health care series . - Jossey-Bass health care series .

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]

ISBN: 0787964581 9780787964580

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA3Y0078 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Medical policy
Medical statistics--Computer programs
Electronic spreadsheets
Health Services Administration
Automatic Data Processing
Data Interpretation, Statistical
Health Policy

LC Class. No.: RA409.5 / .V466 2003

Dewey Class. No.: 610/.285

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2003 O-648 W 84.1 / V457s 2003