Social Work: Health Statistics

A handbook for any student or professional biologist who wants to process data using a statistical package on a computer, to select appropriate methods, and to extract important information from the often confusing output produced. Stresses the importance of experimental design, measurement of data, and interpretation of results.

This practical book can be used as a supplementary text or as a self-help guide through which the reader can learn to use SPSS on his or her own and at his or her own pace. The book uses statistics to teach SPSS, by interacting with the software, and learning by inquiry and discovery. The book covers descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and building graphs.