Statistics for Nursing Research: A Workbook for Evidence-Based Practice / Edition 3

by Susan K. Grove PhD, RN, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, Daisha J. Cipher PhD

Overview

Understand the statistical methods used in nursing research articles! Statistics for Nursing Research: A Workbook for Evidence-Based Practice, 2nd Edition helps you interpret and analyze the statistical data found in health sciences research articles. Practical exercises show how to critically appraise sampling and measurement techniques, evaluate results, and conduct a power analysis for a study. Written by nursing statistics experts Susan Grove and Daisha Cipher, this is the only statistics workbook for nursing to include research examples from both nursing and medical literature for a complete perspective on health sciences research.

• Comprehensive coverage includes exercises that address all common techniques of sampling, measurement, and statistical analysis that you are likely to see in nursing and medical literature.
• A literature-based approach incorporates a relevant research article into each exercise/chapter, with key excerpts.
• 45 sampling, measurement, and statistical analysis exercises provide a practical review of both basic and advanced techniques, and prepare you to apply statistics to nursing practice.
• Consistent format for all chapters facilitates quick review and easier learning, covering the statistical technique in review, results from a research article, and study questions.
• Study questions in each chapter help you apply concepts to clinical practice.
• Questions to Be Graded in each chapter may be completed and submitted online, to assess your mastery of key statistical techniques.
• A concise index makes it easy to locate information quickly.

• NEW examples show the latest, high-quality research studies. 
• NEW! Expanded coverage helps undergraduate students apply the information learned in statistics and research courses, serves as a refresher/review for graduate students, and also helps in critically appraising studies to determine whether their findings may be used in evidence-based practice.
• NEW! Understanding Statistical Methods section includes exercises to help in understanding the levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio) and in appraising the samples and measurement methods in studies.
• NEW! Conducting and Interpreting Statistical Analyses section includes exercises to help in understanding the power analysis and how to conduct a power analysis for a study, showing how to determine the most appropriate statistical method(s) for analyzing data for a class project, for a clinical agency project, or for an actual research study.
• NEW! Answers to study questions are located in the back of the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780323654111
Publisher:	Elsevier Health Sciences
Publication date:	10/03/2019
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	496
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART 1: Understanding Statistical Methods
1. Identifying Levels of Measurement: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval, and Ratio
2. Identifying Probability and Nonprobability Sampling Methods in Studies
3. Understanding the Sampling Section of a Research Report: Population, Sampling Criteria, Sample Size, Refusal Rate, and Attrition Rate
4. Understanding Reliability of Measurement Methods
5. Understanding Validity of Measurement Methods
6. Understanding Frequencies and Percentages
7. Interpreting Line Graphs
8. Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
9. Measures of Dispersion: Range and Standard Deviation
10. Description of a Study Sample
11. Interpreting Scatterplots
12. Algorithm for Determining the Appropriateness of Inferential Statistical Techniques
13. Understanding Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
14. Understanding Simple Linear Regression
15. Understanding Multiple Linear Regression
16. Understanding Independent Samples t-test
17. Understanding Paired or Dependent Samples t-test
18. Understanding Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Post Hoc Analyses
19. Understanding Pearson Chi Square
20. Understanding Spearman Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient
21. Understanding Mann-Whitney U Test
22. Understanding Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
PART 2: Conducting and Interpreting Statistical Analyses
23. Selecting Appropriate Analysis Techniques for Studies
24. Describing the Elements of Power Analysis: Power, Effect Size, Alpha, and Sample Size
25. Conducting Power Analysis
26. Determining the Normality of a Distribution
27. Calculating Descriptive Statistics
28. Handling Missing Data  NEW!
29. Calculating Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
30. Calculating Simple Linear Regression
31. Calculating Multiple Linear Regression
32. Calculating t-tests for Independent Samples
33. Calculating t-tests for Paired (Dependent) Samples
34. Calculating the Mann-Whitney U Test  NEW!
35. Calculating Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Post Hoc Analyses Following ANOVA
36. Calculating Sensitivity and Specificity
37. Calculating Pearson Chi-Square
38. Calculating Odds Ratio and 95% Confidence Intervals
References
Appendices
Appendix A: Critical Values for Student's t Distribution
Appendix B: Critical Values of r for Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
Appendix C: Critical Values of F for a = 0.05 and a = 0.01
Appendix D: Critical Values of the χ2 Distribution
Index

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