Book description
Statistics for Health Care Professionals: Working with Excel (second
edition) is written in a clear, easily followed style keyed to the
powerful statistical tool, Microsoft Excel 2007. It introduces the use
of statistics applicable to health administration, health policy, public
health, health information management, and other professions,
emphasizing the logic of probability and statistical analysis in all
areas. Coverage includes data acquisition, data display, basics of
probability, data distributions, confidence limits and hypothesis
testing, statistical tests for categorical data, tests for related and
unrelated data, analysis of variance, simple linear regression, multiple
regression, and analysis with a dichotomous categorical dependent
variable. A glossary and section-by-section review questions round out
this uniquely comprehensive and accessible text.
John F. Kros is an associate professor of marketing and supply chain
management at East Carolina University College of Business,
Greenville, North Carolina.
David A. Rosenthal is an associate professor in the Department of
Health Informatics and Information Management at the University of
Tennessee's Health Science Center, Memphis.
