Successful Statistics for Nursing and Healthcare

by Roger Watson, Ian Atkinson, Patricia Egerton

"Successful Statistics For Nursing and Healthcare" helps students to develop an understanding of statistical methods within the evidence-based health care context, focusing on problems faced by nurses and other health professionals. It builds readers' confidence in descriptive statistics, concentrating on appropriate statistical tools and the techniques used in research. The authors have a light touch when dealing with the subject's mathematical underpinning, and the result is an accessible text that will be essential for all pre-registration students of research methods and statistics.

232 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2006