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There are many books concerned with statistical theory. This is not one of them. 'Statistics for Health, Life and Social Sciences' is a practical book. It is aimed at people who need to understand statistics, but not develop it as a subject. The typical reader might be a postgraduate student in health, life or social science who has no knowledge of statistics, but needs to use quantitative methods in their studies. Students who are engaged in qualitative studies will need to read and understand quantitative studies when they do their literature reviews, this book may be of use to them.
- Content :-
- Getting started in SPSS - Data entry
- Introducing descriptive statistics
- Graphs
- Manipulating data
- Chi square
- Differences between two groups
- Differences between more than two groups
- Correlation
- Paired tests
- Measures of prediction: sensitivity, specificity and predictive values
- Receiver operating characteristic
- Reliability
- Internal reliability
- Factor analysis
- linear Regression
- logistic regression
- Cluster analysis
- Introduction to power analysis
- Which statistical tests to use
