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Mackridge, Rowe:
A Practical Approach to Using Statistics in Health Research: From Planning to Reporting
Welcome to the website for A Practical Approach to Using Statistics in Health Research: From Planning to Reporting by Adam Mackridge and Philip Rowe. The website is aimed at helping readers of our book to understand how to use statistical tests correctly in their research. It is aimed at people working in health or social care who are interested in carrying out research and recognize the importance of statistical testing to provide robustness to the analysis and credibility to the findings. The book describes how to tackle the statistics for most common scenarios where the study design is fairly simple. The book is intended to help you use statistics in practice-focussed research and will not attempt to provide a full theoretical background to statistical methods. For that, you can turn to our sister publication (Rowe, 2015). The book, supported by the materials on the website, set out the basic rules for using statistical tests, guides the reader through the process of deciding which test is most appropriate to their project and then provides a stepwise description of how to use the test. The website contains three main components:
We have also provided SPSS data files where this software has been used in our examples. If you do not have access to this software, the instructions should still be useful; all packages work in essentially similar ways. The choice of statistical routine, the information you have to supply to allow the method to run correctly and the key pieces of output that you have to identify will not vary from package to package. To allow you to do this, we have also provided the data in MS Excel format so that you can access this and copy it into the statistical programme of your choice. If you do not have access to MS Excel, you can open the files in MS Excel Viewer (available from www.microsoft.com).
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