TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hicks,Carolyn
TI  - Research methods for clinical therapists: applied project design and analysis 
SN  - 9780702029981 (alk. paper)
AV  - RM708 .H53 2009
U1  - 615.8 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Edinburgh, New York
PB  - Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier
KW  - Physical therapy
KW  - Research
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Physical Therapy Modalities
KW  - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW  - Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
KW  - Research Design
KW  - Statistics as Topic
KW  - methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Research design and statistics : some basic concepts -- Questionnaires, surveys, and sampling -- The nature of the data -- Techniques of descriptive statistics -- Testing hypotheses -- Designing your study -- Sources of error in research -- Matching the research design to the statistical test -- Putting the theory into practice -- Writing up the research for publication -- Reading published research critically -- Non-parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs -- Parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs -- Non-parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs -- Parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs -- Non-parametric and parametric tests for correlational designs -- Estimation -- Attitude scales -- Repertory grid analysis -- Using statistics in diagnostic and screening tests : receiver operating characteristics -- Capturing expert opinion : the Delphi technique -- Capturing the user voice : Thurstone's paired comparison technique -- Capturing the clinician's view : reliability measures -- Undertaking systematic reviews
ER  -