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Thisbook shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach healthservices management statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2010 for Health Services Management Statistics, it is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students andpractitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical health servicesmanagement problems. If understandingstatistics isn't your strongest suit, you are not especiallymathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the rightbook for you.
Excel,a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also aneffective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in healthservices management courses. Itspowerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statisticsmuch easier than in years past. Excel 2010 for Health Services ManagementStatistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems capitalizes on theseimprovements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel tostatistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.
Each chapter explains statisticalformulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific,easy-to-understand health services management problems. Practice problems are provided at the end ofeach chapter with their solutions in an Appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test(with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they havelearned.
List of contents
Sample Size, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Standard Error of the Mean.- Random Number Generator.- Confidence Interval About the Mean Using the TINV Function and Hypothesis Testing.- One-Group t-Test for the Mean.- Two-Group t-Test of the Difference of the Means for Independent Groups.- Correlation and Simple Linear Regression.- Multiple Correlation and Multiple Regression.- One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).- Appendix A: Answers to End-of-Chapter Practice Problems.- Appendix B: Practice Test.- Appendix C: Answers to Practice Test.- Appendix D: Statistical Formulas.- Appendix E: t-table.
About the author
At the beginning of his academic career, Prof. Tom J. Quirk spent six years in educational research at The
American Institutes for Research and Educational Testing Service. He then taught Social Psychology, Educational
Psychology, General Psychology, Marketing, Management, and Accounting at
Principia College, and is currently a Professor of Marketing in the George
Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University based
in St. Louis, Missouri (USA) where he teaches Marketing Statistics, Marketing
Research, and Pricing Strategies. He has
written 60+ textbook supplements in Marketing and Management, published 20+
articles in professional journals, and presented 20+ papers at professional
meetings. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics
from John Carroll University, both an M.A. in Education and a Ph.D. in
Educational Psychology from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from The
University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Simone Cummings joinedthe Walker School at Webster University in 2013 as an associate professor of management, teaching finance and
statistics courses in the Master of Health Administration program. Prior to
joining the Walker faculty, she worked for a number of hospitals, including
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Regional Hospital and Columbia Hospital for
Women in Washington, D.C. She has also held faculty positions at Simmons
College in Boston and Washington University in St. Louis. Cummings received an undergraduate degree in Business
Administration from Washington University, a master’s degree in Health
Administration from the Health Administration Program of the Washington
University School of Medicine, and a doctorate in Health Policy and
Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She
currently serves on the Missouri Baptist Institutional Review Board and is
active in a variety of local civic organizations.
Summary
This
book shows how Microsoft Excel is able to teach health
services management statistics effectively. Similar to the previously published Excel 2010 for Health Services Management Statistics, it is a step-by-step exercise-driven guide for students and
practitioners who need to master Excel to solve practical health services
management problems. If understanding
statistics isn’t your strongest suit, you are not especially
mathematically-inclined, or if you are wary of computers, this is the right
book for you.
Excel,
a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an
effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in health
services management courses. Its
powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics
much easier than in years past. Excel 2010 for Health Services Management
Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems capitalizes on these
improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to
statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.
Each chapter explains statistical
formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific,
easy-to-understand health services management problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of
each chapter with their solutions in an Appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test
(with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have
learned.
