Table
of Contents
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Contributors & Reviewers |
iii |
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Preface |
v |
SECTION 1 |
OBTAINING AND UNDERSTANDING DATA |
1 |
Chapter 1 |
Using Research and Statistics in Health Care |
3 |
Chapter 2 |
Organizing, Displaying, and Describing Data |
19 |
Chapter 3 |
Key Principles Underlying Statistical Inference:
Probability and the Normal Distribution |
61 |
Chapter 4 |
Hypothesis Testing with Inferential Statistics |
77 |
SECTION 2 |
ANALYZING THE DATA |
91 |
Chapter 5 |
The Independent t Test and the Mann-Whitney U-Test:
Measuring the Differences Between the Means of Two Unrelated Groups |
93 |
Chapter 6 |
The Paired t Test and the Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs
Signed Rank Test: Comparing the Means/Medians of Two Related Groups |
127 |
Chapter 7 |
The One-Way ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallis
H-Test: Comparing the Means of
Three or More Unrelated Groups |
151 |
Chapter 8 |
Differences Among Group Means: N-Way ANOVA and MANOVA |
185 |
Chapter 9 |
Comparing the Means of Three or More Related Groups:
Repeated-Measures ANOVA and Friedman’s ANOVA by Rank |
215 |
Chapter 10 |
Comparing Means and Controlling for Covariates: ANCOVA |
247 |
Chapter 11 |
Correlation Coefficients: Measuring the Association of
Two Variables |
263 |
Chapter 12 |
Examining Cross-Tabulations: The Chi-Square and
Associated Statistics |
289 |
SECTION 3 |
MODEL BUILDING AND PRESENTATION |
317 |
Chapter 13 |
Statistical Model Building and Logistic Regression |
319 |
Chapter 14 |
Linear Regression |
339 |
Chapter 15 |
Exploratory Factor Analysis |
371 |
Chapter 16 |
Path Analysis |
399 |
Chapter 17 |
Structural Equation Modeling |
419 |
Chapter 18 |
Writing and Presenting for Publication |
445 |
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APPENDICES AND OTHER END OF BOOK
ITEMS |
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Glossary |
455 |
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Answers to Chapter Review
Questions |
465 |
Appendix A |
Entering Data into SPSS |
511 |
Appendix B |
Percent of Total Area of Normal Curve Between a 2-Score
and the Mean |
519 |
Appendix C |
Distribution of £ |
521 |
Appendix D |
Critical Values of the U-Statistic |
523 |
Appendix E |
Critical Values of the Wilcoxon
Signed-Rank Statistic |
525 |
Appendix F |
The 5% and 1% Points for the Distribution of F |
527 |
Appendix G |
Critical Values of H for the Kruskal-Wallis
ANOVA by Rank |
535 |
Appendix H |
Critical Values of Dunn’s Q for Nonparametric Multiple
Comparison Testing |
537 |
Appendix I |
Exact Distribution of the Friedman’s χ2 for the
Friedman’s ANOVA by Rank Comparing Three Related Groups |
539 |
Appendix J |
Critical Values of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient |
541 |
Appendix K |
Critical Values of the Spearman Correlation Coefficient |
543 |
Appendix L |
Distribution of χ2
Probability |
545 |
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References |
547 |
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Index |
557 |
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