Redressing the power and effect of significance. A new approach to an old problem: Teaching statistics to nursing students

Nurse Education Today

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 358-364

  Taylor, Shirley ^a   Muncer, Steven ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LITERATURE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHILOSOPHY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION, NURSING, BACCALAUREATE; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; MODELS, NURSING; NURSING RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS; TEACHING;

EID: 0037661544     PISSN: 02606917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/nedt.2000.0429     Document Type: Article

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