Statistics for Nursing and Allied Health

Chapter One: Using Research and Statistics In Health Care Chapter Two: Descriptive Statistics: Getting to Know the Data Chapter Three: Building Blocks for Using Inferential Statistics Chapter Four: Inferential Statistics: Finding Relationships in the Data Chapter Five: The Independent T-test and the Mann-Whitney U-test: Comparing the Means Chapter Six: The Paired T-test and the Wilcoxon Matched-pairs Test: Comparing the Means of Two Related Groups Chapter Seven: The One-way ANOVA and the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA: Comparing the Means of Three or More Unrelated Groups Chapter Eight: The Repeated-measures ANOVA and the Friedman's ANOVA by Rank: Comparing the Means of Three or More Related Groups Chapter Nine: The Pearson and the Spearman Correlation Coefficients: Measuring the Association of Two Variables Chapter Ten: The Chi-square Statistic and the McNemar Test: Examining Relationships between Categorical Variables Chapter Eleven: Model Building with Linear and Logistic Regression Chapter Twelve: Writing for Publication Appendix A Percent of Total Area of Normal Curve Between a z-Score and the Meam Appendix B Critical Values of the Student t-Statistic Appendix C Critical Values of "U" for the Mann-Whitney U-Test Appendix D Critical Values of "T," the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Statistic 391 Appendix E Critical Values of "F" for Testing ANOVA Models Appendix F Critical Values of "H" for the Kruskal-Wallis ANOVA by Rank Appendix G Critical Values of Dunn's Q for Nonparametric Multiple Comparison Testing Appendix H Exact Distribution of the Friedman's Xr 2 for the Friedman's ANOVA by Rank Comparing Three Related Groups Appendix I Significant Values of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient Appendix J Critical Values of the Spearman Correlation Coefficient Appendix K Significant Values of the Chi-Square Statistic Glossary Index