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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Performance Improvement & Customer Service > Statistics for Health Policy & Administration Using Microsoft Excel

Statistics for Health Policy and Administration Using Microsoft Excel
James Veney  

Hardcover: 496 pages
ISBN 0787964581
Jossey-Bass
October 2003
Price: $70.00

 

Statistics for Health Policy and Administration Using Microsoft Excel provides an introduction to the use of statistics in health policy and health administration. 

The book is keyed to the powerful statistical tool Microsoft Excel and shows how to prepare data and understand the data display capabilities of the program. It also offers the information needed to master probability–the foundation of statistical analysis. This important book is structured around illustrative examples that are demonstrated with Excel displays. 

You may view the introduction to this book here. Filled with step-by-step discussions of how statistical problems are solved using Excel, it contains a wealth of exercises addressing the material covered in each section. Many of the book’s exercises include the replication of examples so that the student has an immediate reference with which to compare his or her work and determine whether or not the procedure was carried out correctly. Additional exercises are provided for further practice to reinforce the valuable lessons learned. Statistics for Health Policy and Administration Using Microsoft Excel is an important text that

  • Includes information on the chi-square statistic and discusses its use for assessing data for which both the independent and dependent variables are categorical
  • Discusses the use of the t test for assessing data where the independent variable is a two-level categorical variable, while the dependent variable is a numerical variable
  • Includes analysis of variance, which provides an analytical tool for a multilevel categorical independent variable and a numerical dependent variable
  • Contains information on regression analysis, which deals with numerical variables both as the independent and the dependent variables
  • Introduces the use of Logit for numerical independent variables and dependent variables that are categorical and take on only two levels.

This comprehensive volume on statistics for health care administration and health policy offers readers a much-needed resource.

"Finally, an intuitive textbook for teaching statistical analysis to adult health professionals." –Catherine Garner, vice president, HealthStream, Inc.

James E. Veney is professor of health policy and administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served as director of both the master’s and doctoral programs in the department and has taught courses in research methodology, evaluation methodology, statistics, and international health systems.

"I wish I had this text years ago because of all the opportunities we have had to apply it in the design, conduct, and analysis of health services research and evaluation work around the world." –Steve Sapirie, director, INFORM Management Sciences for Health, Boston

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