Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS

Part I: Statistical Principles 1. Research Principles Learning Objectives Research Questions Control and Experimental Groups Rationale for Random Assignment Hypothesis Formulation Reading Statistical Outcomes Accept/Reject Hypotheses Variable Types/Levels of Measure Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Chapter 2 Samplng Learning Objectives Overview - Sampling Rationale for Sampling Sampling Terminology Representative Sample Probability Sampling Nonprobability Sampling Sampling Bias Optimal Sample Size Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 3. Working in SPSS Learning Objectives Overview - SPSS Two Views: Variable View and Data View Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part II: Summarizing Variables 4. Descriptive Statistics Learning Objectives Overview - Descriptive Statistics Descriptive Statistics SPSS - Loading SPSS Data Files SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Continuous Variables (Age) SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Categorical Variables (Gender) SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Continuous Variable (Age) Select by Categorical Variable (Gender) SPSS - (Re)Selecting All Variables Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part III: Measuring Differences Between Groups 5. t Test and Mann-Whitney U Test Learning Objectives Overview - t-Test Overview - Mann-Whitney U-Test Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 6. ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Test Learning Objectives Overview - ANOVA Overview - Kruskal-Wallis Test Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 7. ANCOVA Learning Objectives Overview - ANCOVA Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 8. MANOVA Learning Objectives Overview - MANOVA Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part IV - Measuring Differences Over Time 9. Paired t-Test and Wilcoxon Test Learning Objectives Overview - Paired t-Test Overview - Wilcoxon Test Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 10. ANOVA Repeated Measures Learning Objectives Overview - ANOVA Repeated Measures Variations of Longitudinal Design Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part V - Measuring Relationships Between Variables 11. Correlation and Regression Learning Objectives Overview - Pearson Correlation Overview - Spearman Correlation Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 12. Chi-Square Learning Objectives Overview - Chi-Square Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 13. Logistic Regression Learning Objectives Overview - Logistic Regression Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part VI - Data Handling 14. Supplemental SPSS Operations Learning Objectives Overview - Supplemental SPSS Operations Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises