Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS

Herschel Knapp, PhD, MSSW has more than 20 years of experience as a health science researcher; he has provided project management for innovative implementations designed to improve the quality of patient care throughout the Veterans Health Administration via multisite, health science implementations. In addition to full-time work at the VA, he teaches masters-level courses at the University of Southern California; he has also taught at the University of California, Los Angeles and California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Knapp has served as the lead statistician on a longitudinal cancer research project and managed the program evaluation metrics for a multisite, non-profit children's center. His clinical work includes emergency/trauma therapy in hospital settings. The author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed health science journals, he is also the author of Introductory Statistics Using SPSS (SAGE, 2013), Therapeutic Communication: Developing Professional Skills, Second Edition (SAGE, 2014) and Introduction to Social Work Practice: A Practical Workbook (SAGE, 2010). Dr. Knapp is currently involved in developing and implementing innovative telehealth systems, utilizing videoconferencing technology to facilitate optimal healthcare service delivery to remote patients, and to coordinate specialty consultations among healthcare providers including interventions to diagnose and treat people with HIV and hepatitis, with special outreach to the homeless.

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 All Variables Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part III: Measuring Differences Between Groups 5. t Test and Mann-Whitney U Test Learning Objectives Overview - t-Test Overview - Mann-Whitney U-Test Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 6. ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Test Learning Objectives Overview - ANOVA Overview - Kruskal-Wallis Test Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 7. ANCOVA Learning Objectives Overview - ANCOVA Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 8. MANOVA Learning Objectives Overview - MANOVA Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part IV - Measuring Differences Over Time 9. Paired t-Test and Wilcoxon Test Learning Objectives Overview - Paired t-Test Overview - Wilcoxon Test Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 10. ANOVA Repeated Measures Learning Objectives Overview - ANOVA Repeated Measures Variations of Longitudinal Design Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part V - Measuring Relationships Between Variables 11. Correlation and Regression Learning Objectives Overview - Pearson Correlation Overview - Spearman Correlation Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 12. Chi-Square Learning Objectives Overview - Chi-Square Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises 13. Logistic Regression Learning Objectives Overview - Logistic Regression Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises Part VI - Data Handling 14. Supplemental SPSS Operations Learning Objectives Overview - Supplemental SPSS Operations Good Common Sense Key Concepts Practice Exercises

I would highly recommend this text to anyone - students or faculty - with questions about statistics or SPSS. The brilliance of this text is its straight forward prose. Herschel Knapp does a fantastic job of articulating what one needs to know about specific statistical tests and how to effectively use SPSS to analyze data. The brilliance of this text is its straight forward prose. -- Heather Carter-Templeton The new textbook by Herschel Knapp, Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS, is a useful text to supplement a basic research textbook for students being introduced to the research process. It provides a clear and concise explanation of commonly used statistical tests and builds skills related to the use of SPSS. -- Jennell P. Charles This book is a very simple introduction into statistics. The author provides many very useful examples to help students comprehend difficult analyses. The SPSS examples and visuals are superior, as are the exercise at the end of the chapter. -- Daniel Rodriguez