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- Statistical theory and formulas are explained in clear language without bogging you down in mathematical fine points
- You will be told each step of the way, not only how to use Excel, but also why you are doing each step
- You will learn both how to write statistical formulas and how to use drop-down menus to have Excel create formulas for you
- Includes 160 color screen shots so you can be sure you are performing Excel steps correctly
- Each chapter includes specific objectives for each concept so you know the purpose of the Excel steps
- Each chapter presents key steps needed to solve practical, easy-to-understand health services management problems using Excel
- Practical examples of problems are taken from several areas in health services management
- A “Practice Test” is given in Appendix B to test your knowledge at the end of the book. Answers appear in Appendix C
- This book purposely does not include a CD of Excel files. Instead, you’ll be shown how to create each Excel file yourself. In business, your colleagues will not give you an Excel file. You will be expected to create your own. This book will give you ample practice in developing this important skill
- This book is a tool that can be used either by itself or along with any good statistics book
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Excel, a widely available computer program for students and managers, is also an effective teaching and learning tool for quantitative analyses in health services management courses. Its powerful computational ability and graphical functions make learning statistics much easier than in years past. However, Excel 2010 for Health Services Management Statistics: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems is the first book to capitalize on these improvements by teaching students and managers how to apply Excel to statistical techniques necessary in their courses and work.
Each chapter explains statistical formulas and directs the reader to use Excel commands to solve specific, easy-to-understand health services management problems. Practice problems are provided at the end of each chapter with their solutions in an Appendix. Separately, there is a full Practice Test (with answers in an Appendix) that allows readers to test what they have learned.
Keywords
- Applied Health Services Management Statistics
- Excel 2010 Health Services Management Statistics
- Excel Statistics
- Health Services Management Statistics
- Health Services Management Statistics a first course
- Health Services Management Statistics with Excel 2010
- Learn Statistics with Excel
- Practical Health Services Management Statistics
- Statistics Health Management
- Statistics for Health Services
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“This book describes how Microsoft Excel can be used to teach health services management statistics easily and effectively. … The intended audience includes students, instructors, and managers who want to learn to use Microsoft Excel in healthcare management. The use of this as course book for healthcare management students would be appropriate as well. … This book does an excellent job of explaining the use of Microsoft Excel as a tool in learning health services statistics.” (Samit Bhatheja, Doody’s Book Reviews, September, 2014)Authors and Affiliations
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Webster University, St. Louis, USA
Thomas J. Quirk, Simone Cummings
About the authors
At the beginning of his academic career, Prof. Quirk spent six years in educational research at The American Institutes for Research and Educational Testing Service. He then taught Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Marketing, Management, and Accounting at Principia College, and is currently a Professor of Marketing in the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University based in St. Louis, Missouri (USA) where he teaches Marketing Statistics, Marketing Research, and Pricing Strategies. He has written 60+ textbook supplements in Marketing and Management, published 20+ articles in professional journals, and presented 20+ papers at professional meetings. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from John Carroll University, both an M.A. in Education and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from The University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Prior to receiving her doctorate, Prof. Cummings worked for several hospitals including Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Children's Hospital, and St. Louis Regional Hospital, all in St. Louis, Missouri (USA), as well as Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C. She began her academic career in the Health Care Administration program at Simmons College in Boston and later taught in the Health Administration Program at Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Cummings is currently an Associate Professor of Healthcare Management in the George Herbert Walker School of Business & Technology at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri where she teaches Statistics for Healthcare Management and Healthcare Finance. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis, an M.H.A. from the Washington University School of Medicine, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina ChapelHill. Prof. Cummings is an active tennis player and also enjoys reading horror novels. She is married to Donald Lawrence and they have two daughters, Nina Marie and Madison Elise.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Excel 2010 for Health Services Management Statistics
Book Subtitle: A Guide to Solving Practical Problems
Authors: Thomas J. Quirk, Simone Cummings
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05260-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05259-5Published: 10 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05260-1Published: 19 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 254
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 159 illustrations in colour
Topics: Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences, Health Care Management, Health Administration