TY  - BOOK
AU  - Veney,James E
TI  - Statistics for health policy and administration using Microsoft Excel
T2  - Jossey-Bass health care series
SN  - 0787964581
AV  - RA409.5 .V466 2003
U1  - 610/.285 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - San Francisco
PB  - Jossey-Bass
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Medical statistics
KW  - Computer programs
KW  - Electronic spreadsheets
KW  - Health Services Administration
KW  - Automatic Data Processing
KW  - Data Interpretation, Statistical
KW  - Health Policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Excel as a statistical tool -- Data acquisition: sampling and data preparation -- Data display: descriptive presentation, Excel graphing capability -- Basic concepts of probability -- Measures of central tendency and dispersion: data distributions -- Confidence limits and hypothesis testing -- Statistical tests for categorical data -- t tests for related and unrelated data -- Analysis of variance -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression: concepts and calculation -- Extensions of multiple regression -- Analysis with a dichotomous categorical dependent variable
N2  - This book provides an introduction to the use of statistics in health policy and health administration related fields. It is keyed to the powerful statistical tool Microsoft Excel and shows how to prepare data and understand the data display capabilities of the program.--[book cover]
ER  -