Statistics for Healthcare Professionals: An Introduction

by Ian Scott, Deborah Mazhindu

This book introduces you to the basic rules and principles of statistics and shows you how straightforward statistical tests can be performed and analysed in relation to healthcare.

Key features of the text

-Examples which show how statistics are used in the real world
-Exercises to test your understanding and develop your proficiency
-A glossary to remind you of key terms.
-Additional online material including guides to using Microsoft Excel and SPSS and sample datasets.

256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Dmreichle]

I read this book for school. I have never taken a formal statistics class, although my job is a lot of statistics. I mostly listened to this book using an e-reader on Iphone, which is annoying at best to listen to and incomprehensible at worst. However, being in a time crunch to get this course done, I listened to it on my commute.

This is listed as an introductory book, and it is, although many of the concepts were completely new to me. I don't know how useful this will be in my line of work, but I found it very interesting in learning how studies are accomplished and how we, even as laymen, can learn a lot about the validity of studies from the proper use of statistics. I am skeptical of a lot of studies as they often seem to be contradictory to "other" studies depending on what the author of the study has to prove. This book helped me to know what to look for in a study (not necessarily in a facebook article with click bait headlines!) to evaluate whether it seems to be valid.