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Quantitative Research for Chaplains and Health Care Professionals - A Primer (Paperback)
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Quantitative Research for Chaplains and Health Care Professionals - A Primer (Paperback)
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This book takes readers from very basic research concepts, such as
'causality' and 'variables', to the application of different types
of statistical analyses. The first two chapters introduce the
scientific method and causality, and assess the degree to which the
major types of research designs used in health care studies allow
researchers to make causal inferences. The book concludes with a
detailed description of the seven critical factors that must be
controlled to draw causal inferences from experimental studies. The
rest of the book covers levels of measurement, i.e. nominal,
ordinal, interval, and ratio scales; operational definitions; risk
factors, independent and dependent variables, and other kinds of
variables; how to calculate and interpret measures of central
tendency and variability; the normal curve; commonly used measures
of association and what they mean; criteria that have been
suggested for inferring causality from nonexperimental research;
and different types of t-tests. This book provides fundamental and
practical knowledge about research methodology that is essential
for health care chaplains, and students and professionals in other
health care fields and the social sciences. The chapters in this
book were originally published as articles in the Journal of Health
Care Chaplaincy.
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