Applied Statistics in Health Sciences

Applied APPLIED Statistics for the STATISTICS Social and Health Sciences IN HEALTH provides graduate SCIENCES students in the APPLIED STATISTICS III
social and health sciences with the basic skills that they need to estimate, interpret,
present, and publish statistical models using contemporary standards. The book
targets the social and health science branches such as human development, public
health, sociology, psychology, education, and social work in which students bring a
wide range of mathematical skills and have a wide range of methodological affinities.
For these students, a successful course in statistics will not only offer statistical content
but will also help them develop an appreciation for how statistical techniques might
answer some of the research questions of interest to them. This is an excellent
presentation of experienceinteaching andguiding research workers inhealth sciences.
This book covers routine aspects of application of research methods, statistics and
presents mathematical aspects and calculations in lucid and reader-friendly manner.
Written in simple and easily understandable manner with illustrations. This book is
usefulfor students,teachers,research workers,etc.
Contents: 1. Statistics and Research, 2. Types of Research, 3. Collection of Data,
4.Tabulation of Data, 5. Measures of Central Tendency, 6. Measures of Dispersion and
Skewness,7.Health Indicators.