Using the 'new' statistics in nursing research

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 132-139

  Ratcliffe, Phillip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complex data; Data analysis; Linear models; Residual heterogeneity; Statistics; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING RESEARCH; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING RESEARCH; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031611489     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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