Using research and statistics in health care -- Descriptive statistics : getting to know the data -- Key principles of statistical inference -- Hypothesis testing with inferential statistics -- Measuring the differences between the means two unrelated group means : independent t-tests and Mann-Whitney U-tests -- Measuring the differences between the means of two related groups : paired t-tests and Wilcoxon Matched Pairs tests -- Measuring the differences between the means of three or more unrelated groups : one way ANOVAS and the Kruskal-Wallis H-tests -- Differences among the means of three or more unrelated groups defined by two or more independent variables : N-way ANOVA -- Comparing the means of three or more related groups : repeated measures ANOVA and Friedman’s ANOVA by rank -- Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) -- Measuring the association of two variables : Pearson and Spearman correlation -- Examining cross tabulations : the Chi-square statistic and the McNemar test -- Logistic regression -- Linear regression and regression diagnostics -- Factor analysis -- Path analysis -- Structural equation modeling -- Writing for presentation and publication.