Stressed about statistics? Overcome your anxieties and build your confidence! Develop the data-gathering, analysis, and application skills at the heart of health care today and see how statistics apply to the real world in which you will work.
Step by step, the authors, noted educators and practitioners, make the often intimidating field of statistics approachable and illustrate its relevance to the future of health care from personal, institutional, regional, national, and international perspectives. Clear, easy-to-follow explanations of statistical methods and basic calculations along with hands-on practice with actual data from recognized sources point the way toward mastery of this growing field.