Statistics Guide for Beginners: Maureen Haaker

Are you looking for help around statistics?

If yes, the following resource was written by Maureen Haaker, a Lecturer in the Dept of Children, Young People and Education (Faculty of Arts, Business and Applied Social Science), and she has kindly shared it with us;

• Statistics Guide for Beginners (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8aF5QN3s_UDWm9IcGg4WHJoNGc/view)

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Book Review: Practical Statistics for Nursing and Health Care

As part of our support to course teams I've been working with Karen Lewis to explore what textbooks are available in the Library which map to the topics she'll be covering in her sessions. The intention is to discipline specific texts to help students connect with the topic, as opposed to general statistics books which might seem a little abstract. A textbook which is really good for Nursing and Health Care is;

Practical statistics for nursing and health care (stsk 519.502461 FOW)

This maps to her curriculum very neatly. For instance;

• Processing data (Scales of measurement, nominal, ordinal, interval) is in Chapter 3
• Measuring the Average (mean, mode, median) is Chapter 7
• Measuring variability (range, standard deviation, alternatives and interpretations) is Chapter 8
• Measuring Correlations (meaning, strength, significance and calculation) is Chapter 13

Learning Services Resources for Maths Support

We'd just like to make you aware we have a large number of Maths support books which are available in the Library. These have been purchased to support the needs from across the various course teams, and account for difference starting points.

The book collection has been located with other academic skills resources, and are based in the PC Suite, near L107.

We'd encourage you to use these books as part of your self directed support. So once your lecturers have introduced and applied the maths, please pop across to the Library to access these resources.