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Informationen zum Autor Herschel Knapp, PhD, MSSW, has more than 30 years of experience as a health care professional in a variety of domains. In addition to his clinical work as a psychotherapist, primarily in hospital settings, he has provided project management for innovative interventions designed to improve the quality of patient care via multisite, health science implementations. He teaches master’s and doctoral courses at Yeshiva University; he has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles, and California State, San Bernardino. Dr. Knapp has served as the lead statistician on a longitudinal cancer research project and managed the program evaluation metrics for a multisite, nonprofit children’s center. His clinical work includes emergency/trauma therapy in hospital settings. Dr. Knapp has developed and implemented innovative telehealth systems, using videoconferencing technology to facilitate optimal health care service delivery to remote patients and to coordinate specialty consultations among health care providers, including interventions to diagnose and treat people with HIV and hepatitis, with special outreach to the homeless. He created and implemented a nurse research mentorship program, providing research and analytic education, enabling nurses to design, implement, analyze, and publish the results of their quality improvement projects. Dr. Knapp has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed health science journals and serves as a peer-reviewer for more than 20 science journals. He is also the author of other textbooks, including Intermediate Statistics Using SPSS (2018), Introductory Statistics Using SPSS (2nd ed., 2017), Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS (2017), Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills (2nd ed., 2014), and Introduction to Social Work Practice: A Practical Workbook (2010). Klappentext This book teaches proficiency in selecting, processing, and mindfully interpreting each statistical function and finding. Herschel Knapp's approach is practical, and avoids the use of unnecessarily complex technical details that are of no interest to students. This book and ancillary materials are designed to specifically address the needs of nursing students. Zusammenfassung A friendly and approachable guide to real-world statistics, Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS covers the most common statistical functions in nursing science using plain language. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Statistical Principles 1. Research Principles Learning Objectives Research Questions Control and Experimental Groups Rationale for Random Assignment Hypothesis Formulation Reading Statistical Outcomes Accept/Reject Hypotheses Variable Types/Levels of Measure Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Chapter 2 Samplng Learning Objectives Overview - Sampling Rationale for Sampling Sampling Terminology Representative Sample Probability Sampling Nonprobability Sampling Sampling Bias Optimal Sample Size Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 3. Working in SPSS Learning Objectives Overview - SPSS Two Views: Variable View and Data View Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part II: Summarizing Variables 4. Descriptive Statistics Learning Objectives Overview - Descriptive Statistics Descriptive Statistics SPSS - Loading SPSS Data Files SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Continuous Variables (Age) SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Categorical Variables (Gender) SPSS - Descriptive Statistics: Continuous Variable (Age) Select by Categorical Variable (Gender) SPSS - (Re)Selecting Al...
