Jim Fowler

Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care


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of weight and chest circumference of 25 new‐born babi...Figure 4.9 Location of accidents (a) males and (b) females.

      3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 The principle of cohort studies.Figure 6.2 Principle of case‐control studies.

      4 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Bimodal distribution of Forced Expiratory Volume in one second of...Figure 7.2 (a) Symmetrical distribution; (b) skewed distribution.

      5 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Estimated probability distribution of new‐born baby weights.Figure 9.2 Gradation of histogram (a) into the normal curve (b).Figure 9.3 Normal curves. (a) Similar μ and different σ; (b) different μ and...Figure 9.4 Normal curve with standard deviations.Figure 9.5 The normal curve with 5% in two tails.Figure 9.6 The normal curve with 5% in upper tail.Figure 9.7 (a) Untransformed observations; (b) logarithmically transformed o...

      6 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 The difference between two sample means.

      7 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Size frequency distributions of systolic blood pressure measurem...Figure 11.2 Hypothesis testing and the normal curve. (a) Two‐tailed test; (b...

      8 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Scattergrams of bivariate data.Figure 13.2 Perfect correlations.

      9 Chapter 14Figure 14.1 A regression line.Figure 14.2 Gradients of slopes: gradient = y units/x units.Figure 14.3 Final height of car above sea level = a + bx, where b is the gra...Figure 14.4 A perfect linear relationship.Figure 14.5 Deviations from the regression line.Figure 14.6 Regression of oxygen consumption on exercise time.Figure 14.7 Graph of decline in plasma concentration of ‘Drug D’. (a) Axes u...

      Guide

      1  Cover Page

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright Page

      4  Preface

      5  Foreword to Students

      6  Table of Contents

      7  Begin Reading

      8  Appendix A Table of Random Numbers

      9  Appendix B t‐Distribution

      10  Appendix C χ 2‐Distribution

      11  Appendix D Critical Values of Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient

      12  Appendix E Critical Values of the Product Moment Correlation Coefficient

      13  Appendix F Mann–Whitney U ‐test Values (Two‐Tailed Test) P = 0.05

      14  Appendix G Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Test for Matched Pairs

      15  Appendix H F‐Distribution

      16  Appendix I Tukey Test

      17  Appendix J Symbols

      18  Appendix K Leicestershire ECT Study Data:

      19  Appendix L How Large Should Our Samples Be?

      20  Bibliography

      21  Index

      22  Wiley End User License Agreement

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