Statistical Research Methods: A Guide for Non-Statisticians

✍ Scribed by Roy Sabo, Edward Boone (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 218
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This textbook will help graduate students in non-statistics disciplines, advanced undergraduate researchers, and research faculty in the health sciences to learn, use and communicate results from many commonly used statistical methods. The material covered, and the manner in which it is presented, describe the entire data analysis process from hypothesis generation to writing the results in a manuscript. Chapters cover, among other topics: one and two-sample proportions, multi-category data, one and two-sample means, analysis of variance, and regression. Throughout the text, the authors explain statistical procedures and concepts using a non-statistical language. This accessible approach is complete with real-world examples and sample write-ups for the Methods and Results sections of scholarly papers. The text also allows for the concurrent use of the programming language R, which is an open-source program created, maintained and updated by the statistical community. R is freely available and easy to download.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
One-Sample Proportions....Pages 13-35
Two-Sample Proportions....Pages 37-57
Multi-category Data....Pages 59-78
Summarizing Continuous Data....Pages 79-99
One-Sample Means....Pages 101-120
Two-Sample Means....Pages 121-145
Analysis of Variance....Pages 147-165
Power....Pages 167-180
Association and Regression....Pages 181-209
Back Matter....Pages 211-214

✦ Subjects

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Statistical Theory and Methods; Statistics, general