Statistics for Health Care Professionals: An Introduction Book

1	Statistics for health care research	1
2	The statistical approach : when should it be applied?	8
3	Measuring, sampling and error	17
4	Questionnaires	27
5	The studies	39
6	Descriptive statistics	47
7	Displaying data	60
8	Hypothesis testing	72
9	Distributions and probabilities	81
10	Making predictions	93
11	Testing for differences between means	105
12	Errors and ANOVAs	123
13	Not normal	136
14	Non-parametric tests	147
15	Tests for association (1) Chi-square	165
16	Tests for association (2) correlation and regression	176
17	Analysing data from systematic reviews	202
18	Choosing test statistics	210
App. 1	A guide to analysing statistics critically	212
App. 2	Statistical tables	215
App. 3	Answers to exercises	225
App. 4	The common symbols and abbreviations used in statistics	230