TY - BOOK AU - Fowler,Jim AU - Jarvis,Phil AU - Chevannes,Mel TI - Practical statistics for nursing and health care SN - 0471497169 (pbk.) U1 - 519.502461 PY - 2002/// CY - Chichester PB - John Wiley KW - Medical statistics KW - Nursing KW - Research KW - Statistical methods N1 - Preface. - Foreword to students. - 1. Introduction. - 2. Health care investigations: measurement and sampling concepts. - 3. Processing data. - 4. Presenting data. - 5. Clinical trials. - 6. Introduction to epidemiology. - 7. Measuring the average. - 8. Measuring variability. - 9. Probability and the normal curve. - 10. How good are our estimates? - 11. The basis of statistical testing. - 12. Analysing frequencies. - 13. Measuring correlations. - 14. Regression analysis. - 15. Comparing averages. - 16. Analysis of variance - ANOVA. - Appendices. - Bibliography. - Index ER -