Description
Book Synopsis"This is an ideal introductory book for budding researchers who are embarking on the development and then analysis of data, and in this case, more specifically questionnaires using partly or exclusively closed questions amenable to statistical analysis."Primary Health Care Research and Development
"The text is a welcome addition for nursing students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level research. Having reviewed the text I can only inform you how a student described a chapter in the book recently when she borrowed it. 'The language is clear and unambiguous'. I will be strongly encouraging students to either purchase the text ... with the purpose of giving them a foundation in statistics."
William Evans, Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
This accessible book is essential reading for those looking for a short and simple guide to basic data analysis. Written for the complete beginner, the book is the ideal companion when undertaking quan
Table of Contents
Introduction
A questionnaire and what to do with it: types of data and relevant analyses
Coding the data for SPSS, setting up an SPSS database & entering the data
Descriptive statistics: frequencies, measures of central tendency and illustrating the data using graphs
Cross-tabulation & the Chi-square statistic
Correlation: examining relationships between interval data
Examining differences between two sets of scores
Reporting the results and presenting the data
Conclusion
References
Answers to the Quiz & Exercises
Glossary
