E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book
Reihe: Statistics in Practice
E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book
Reihe: Statistics in Practice
ISBN: 978-1-118-63916-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
This book provides much-needed guidance on data analysis using Rfor the growing number of scientists in hospital departments whoare responsible for producing reports, and who may have limitedstatistical expertise.
This book explores data analysis using R and is aimed atscientists in hospital departments who are responsible forproducing reports, and who are involved in improving safety.Professionals working in the healthcare quality and safetycommunity will also find this book of interest
Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R:
* Provides functions to perform quality improvement and infectionmanagement data analysis.
* Explores the characteristics of complex systems, such asself-organisation and emergent behaviour, along with theirimplications for such activities as root-cause analysis and thePareto principle that seek few key causes of adverse events.
* Provides a summary of key non-statistical aspects of hospitalsafety and easy to use functions.
* Provides R scripts in an accompanying web site enablinganalyses to be performed by the reader http://www.wiley.com/go/hospital_monitoring
* Covers issues that will be of increasing importance in thefuture, such as, generalised additive models, and complex systems,networks and power laws.