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For medical and health workers this book is a must-have, because statistical methods in these fields are vital, and no equivalent work is available. For medical and health students this is equally true.
A unique point is its low threshold, textually simple and at the same time full of self-assessment opportunities. Other unique points are the succinctness of the chapters with 3 to 6 pages, the presence of entire-commands-texts of the statistical methodologies reviewed and the fact that dull scientific texts imposing an unnecessary burden on busy and jaded professionals have been left out. For readers requesting more background, theoretical and mathematical information a note section with references is in each chapter.
The first edition in 2010 was the first publication of a complete overview of SPSS methodologies for medical and health statistics. Well over 100,000 copies of various chapters were sold within the first year of publication. Reasons for a rewrite were four.
First, many important comments from readers urged for a rewrite. Second, SPSS has produced many updates and upgrades, with relevant novel and improved methodologies. Third, the authors felt that the chapter texts needed some improvements for better readability: chapters have now been classified according the outcome data helpful for choosing your analysis rapidly, a schematic overview of data, and explanatory graphs have been added. Fourth, current data are increasingly complex and many i
mportant methods for analysis were missing in the first edition.For that latter purpose some more advanced methods seemed unavoidable, like hierarchical loglinear methods, gamma and Tweedie regressions and random intercept analyses. In order for the contents of the book to remain covered by the title, the authors renamed the book: SPSS for Starters and 2nd Levelers.
Special care was, nonetheless, taken to keep things as simple as possible. Medical and health professionals tend to dislike software syntax. Therefore, virtually no syntax, but, rather, simple menu commands are given. The arithmetic is still of a no-more-than high-school level. Step-by-step analyses of different statistical methodologies are given with the help of 60 SPSS data files available through the internet. Because of the lack of time of this busy group of people, the authors have given every effort to produce a text as succinct as possible.
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對於醫療和健康工作者來說，這本書是必備之作，因為這些領域的統計方法至關重要，且沒有相應的作品可供參考。對於醫療和健康學生來說，情況也是如此。
這本書的一個獨特之處在於其低門檻，文本簡單易懂，同時提供了豐富的自我評估機會。其他獨特之處包括每章的簡潔性，篇幅為3到6頁，涵蓋了所回顧的統計方法的完整指令文本，並且排除了那些對忙碌且疲憊的專業人士造成不必要負擔的枯燥科學文本。對於需要更多背景、理論和數學資訊的讀者，每章都有附註部分和參考文獻。
2010年的第一版是針對醫療和健康統計的SPSS方法論的完整概述的首次出版。在出版的第一年內，各章節的銷量超過了100,000本。重寫的原因有四個。
首先，許多讀者的重要意見促使重寫。其次，SPSS推出了許多更新和升級，包含相關的新穎和改進的方法論。第三，作者認為章節文本需要一些改進以提高可讀性：章節現在根據有助於快速選擇分析的結果數據進行分類，並添加了數據的示意圖和解釋性圖表。第四，當前數據越來越複雜，許多重要的分析方法在第一版中缺失。
為了達到上述目的，一些更高級的方法似乎是不可避免的，例如階層對數線性方法、伽瑪回歸和Tweedie回歸及隨機截距分析。為了使書籍的內容與標題相符，作者將書名更改為《SPSS for Starters and 2nd Levelers》。
儘管如此，作者仍特別注意保持內容的簡單性。醫療和健康專業人士往往不喜歡軟體語法。因此，幾乎沒有語法，而是提供了簡單的菜單命令。數學計算仍然保持在高中水平。書中提供了不同統計方法的逐步分析，並附有60個可通過互聯網獲得的SPSS數據文件。考慮到這群忙碌人士的時間有限，作者竭盡所能地製作出簡潔的文本。
