Customer Reviews

Statistical Methods for Health Care Research

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An excellent beginning reference book for anyone in need of understanding or interpreting univariate and multivariate statistics. Geared toward health care research, with many examples. A data set is provided with the book for students to use with different analyses. Reading audience is upper division undergraduate or graduate student.

A very well-written and helpful statistics book. It was required reading for a course in Quantitative Nursing Research last semester. Overall, the concepts such as t-tests, correlation and regression were explained in relatively simple terms. Examples with answers were found at the end of each chapter and the book came with a data disk. This was the most user-friendly statistics book that I have used so far!

This book is written for PhD level students. It is not an easy read, even for someone who has had statistics before. I would not recommend this text to anyone except experienced statistics students.

Even though I read a lot of books, I do not often write book reviews - this is only my second review. If you are looking for an excellent book about statistical methods in the health sciences, this is the best book on the subject! It is very professional, and yet as clear as statistics can possibly be. Highly recommended for teaching both undergraduate and graduate students!

I'm three chapters into this book and things are explained reasonably well although it is kind of dry like a pharmacology textbook. The thing I'm not happy about is the disk. It is a DUD unless you have a special program for running it (SPSS or other compatable program). Oh well, at least I only need it for the next 9 weeks of class.

Neither negative or positive, this book provides a repetitive but insightful view to statistics in research and the importance of proper and careful calculation and distribution.

I ordered this book for an up coming Health Care Statistics course. I was amazed at the quality of the used book. Still had the support disc intact. The service was exceptional. The book arrive in near-mint condition; three days after I ordered it. I didn't request express service, because I didn't need it for a month. But, I got express service. So here's a smile back to the seller.

This book is a great way for nurses to come to grips with statistical methods in a text that relates nursing concents to quantitative methods. The clinical examples ensure that the different statistical techniques are utilised to provide answers to relevant nursing/clinical research question. Easy to understand and very user-friendly.

This book is well written and provides clear and concise description regarding basic to advanced statistical techniques. The book provides excellent examples applicable to the health care industry. Good selection.

I find that this book is extremely hard to work through. The reading takes so long that it is hard to get other work done and by the time you are finished you have to go back through the material to really understand what you had just read.