Statistics for health care professionals: working with Excel

Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel by James Veney, John K. Kros, and David Rosenthal is the much awaited second edition of Statistics for Health Administration and Health Policy Using Microsoft Excel. This is far more than a timely update. This book is retooled around Excel 2007, and broadened to be of use to an extremely broad range of health care students andprofessionals, including anyone preparing for or entering management or senior departmental levels in both administration and clinical areas, such as health services management, nursing, health information management, and health information systems. Changes to the new edition include greater stress on logic ofstatistical testing, more methods for dealing with missing data, more coverage of relative risk and odds ratios, more coverage on regression treatment of time series data a new chapter on survival and actuarial statistics new problems in each section to expand the options for learning applications of the statistics. Major new content areas such as tests of proportions, ANOVA, linear regression analysis, chi-squares, non-parametric statistics A separate downloadable supplement, a guide for using SPSS in place of Excel. Like the original, the book is written in a clear and easy to follow style. 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. It also offers the information needed to master probability the foundation of statistical analysis. The book is filled with step-by-step discussions of how statistical problems are solved using Excel, and it contains a wealth of exercises addressing the material covered in each section.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-39331-4
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 528
• Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés