Statistics for Healthcare Professionals
An Introduction
- Ian Scott - Oxford Brookes University, UK
- Debbie Mazhindu - Buckinghamshire New University, UK
This book introduces you to the basic rules and principles of statistics and shows you how straightforward statistical tests can be performed and analysed in relation to healthcare.
Key features of the text are:
-Examples which show how statistics are used in the real world
-Exercises to test your understanding and develop your proficiency
-A glossary to remind you of key terms.
-Additional online material including guides to using Microsoft Excel and SPSS and sample datasets.
‘Scott and Mazhindu have successfully tackled the important challenge of providing future healthcare providers with the foundation for translating research into practice.’
‘I like the simplicity in style of this book. I recommend it to students who are apprehensive about their abilities to handle a statistics course.’
Very good introductory statistical text for students at all levels. Very clear and easy to follow. I Greatly recommend this book.
This is a very good text which outlines the important statistical requirement for the undergraduate student. The section on displaying data is of particular interest, whilst the whole text is presented in a clear and fresh manner.
I run a course on introduction to statistics and I find the book very helpful in helping students to understand various basis statistical concepts
This is a useful text for helping under graduate and post graduate students undertand statistical anaysis. It may be useful for students learning critical analysis and literature review.
User friendly text that walk the healthcare professional through statistics.
This book is very helpful as introductory course to statistics for healthcare professionals
Excellent text for those who find statistics trying !
This is a really good text which will support students through their dissertation proposal and project.
It covers statistics in a simple understandable way.
