Statistics for Advanced Nursing Practice

This course is designed to prepare graduate students in nursing to interpret and evaluate advanced statistical analyses commonly used in nursing research studies. Topics include, among others, statistical significance, level of measurement, descriptive statistics, independent and paired t-Tests, ANOVA, correlation, multiple regression, path analysis and psychometric testing of instruments used in nursing research. At the end of the course students are expected to master both the conceptual as well as practical approaches to statistics. Students will interpret analyses produced by statistical software (SPSS). Prerequisite: An undergraduate statistics course.

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