Download or read book Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS written by Herschel Knapp and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A friendly and approachable guide to real-world statistics, Practical Statistics for Nursing Using SPSS by Herschel Knapp covers the most common statistical functions in nursing science using plain language. Students learn by doing, and an emphasis on this practical approach is seen throughout the book with each chapter structured to answer key questions: What statistical test should I use for this situation? How do I set up the data? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the results? Practice exercises include a vignette, codebook, and data sets ready for processing, enabling students to achieve mastery by carrying out actual statistical analyses.