Excel 2016 for Health Services Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Problems

✍ Scribed by Thomas J. Quirk, Simone M. Cummings (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Excel for Statistics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book shows the capabilities of Microsoft Excel in teaching health services management statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2013 for Health Services Management Statistics, this book is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical health service management problems. If understanding statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right book for you.

Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in health service courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. However, Excel 2016 for Health Services Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.

Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand health service management problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean....Pages 1-20
Random Number Generator....Pages 21-35
Confidence Interval About the Mean Using the TINV Function and Hypothesis Testing....Pages 37-67
One-Group t-Test for the Mean....Pages 69-84
Two-Group t-Test of the Difference of the Means for Independent Groups....Pages 85-114
Correlation and Simple Linear Regression....Pages 115-160
Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression....Pages 161-177
One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)....Pages 179-195
Back Matter....Pages 197-258

✦ Subjects

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences;Health Care Management;Health Administration