Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing Research

by Denise F. Polit, Eileen Lake

The second edition of Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing , uses a conversational style to teach students how to use statistical methods and procedures to analyze research findings. Readers are guided through the complete analysis process from performing a statistical analysis to the rationale behind doing so. Special focus is given to quantitative methods. Other features include management of data, how to "clean" data, and how to work around missing data. New to this edition are updated research examples utilizinging examples from an international mix of studies published by nurse researchers in 2006-2009.

456 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Omran]

Its very helpful tnd essential to stat analysis

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buyer beware that it does not appear that the book's website continues to be supported. I bought this book brand new and spent 60 minutes trying to download Polit2SetA.sav only to discover this after entering my data into 2 separate Pearson websites, the defunct site and the current site. I don't know why my instructor chose to use a book that's > 10 years old. The information in the book is great it's just that the assignments at the back of the chapters are not supported for the B questions.

[Pamela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy to understand. We used StatCrunch instead of SPSS, but it didn't make any difference.

[CassZ]

I pray I never have to go through another statistics course.