A Practical Guide for Health Researchers - part 8 pps

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... journal Nature has a circulation of about 30 000 and an estimated impact factor of 25; the Journal of the American Medical Association has a circulation of about 370 000 and an impact factor ... published on a quarterly basis and made available both on CD-ROM and on the internet. It is easily accessible in a user-friendly format. It is the result of collaborative hand-searching ef...

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... non-standard abbreviations that are used, and for identification of statistical measures of variations, such as standard deviation and standard error of the mean. Tables should have a logical structure. ... 1 28 A practical guide for health researchers the public can be done by popular scientific publications targeted at a lay audience, by using the channels of public me...

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... practice and national regulations. Qualitative methods A research approach that emphasizes the non-numerical data and interpretive analysis. Quantitative methods A research approach that ... which a sample is drawn from a population such that each member of the population has had an equal chance of selection. Random sampling is not haphazard sampling. 230 A practical guide...

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... considerations are This is trial version www.adultpdf.com WHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Fathalla, Mahmoud F. A practical guide for health researchers / by Mahmoud F. Fathalla and Mohamed ... Describing and analysing research results 87 8. 1 Introduction 87 8. 2 Descriptive statistics 87 8. 3 Tabulation 88 8. 4 Calculations 89 8. 5 Graphs/figures 91 8. 6 C...

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... research design. The researcher has to select the appropriate design for the particular study. All types of research design have a place, and all have advantages and disadvantages. But not all ... version www.adultpdf.com 36 A practical guide for health researchers rigour. In particular the drug in question should be compared, in a randomized way, with the currently best...

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... statistical test to be used. For the purposes of data description, and statistical analysis, data are looked at as variables. Data are classified as either numerical or categorical. Data are ... is trial version www.adultpdf.com 100 A practical guide for health researchers Distribution of the data The distribution of the data is important for the statisticians. Data fall in...

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... chalkboard. It is particularly useful in presentations to small groups. Overhead transparencies, as visual aids, have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of overhead transparencies are ... and high rates of Caesarean section: qualitative and quantitative study • Qualitative analysis of psychosocial impact of diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis Writing a paper based on qualitat...

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