Table of Contents: Research methods for clinical therapists :

Main Author:	Hicks
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Edinburgh ; New York: Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2009.
Edition:	5th ed.
Subjects:	Evidence-Based Medicine Physical Therapy Modalities Physical therapy -- > Research -- > Statistical methods Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) Research Design Statistics as Topic -- > methods

Table of Contents:

Research design and statistics : some basic concepts
Questionnaires, surveys, and sampling
The nature of the data
Techniques of descriptive statistics
Testing hypotheses
Designing your study
Sources of error in research
Matching the research design to the statistical test
Putting the theory into practice
Writing up the research for publication
Reading published research critically
Non-parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs
Parametric tests for same- and matched-subject designs
Non-parametric tests for ifferent- (unrelated-) subject designs
Parametric tests for different- (unrelated-) subject designs
Non-parametric and parametric tests for correlational designs
Estimation
Attitude scales
Repertory grid analysis
Using statistics in diagnostic and screening tests : receiver operating characteristics
Capturing expert opinion : the Delphi technique
Capturing the user voice : Thurstone's paired comparison technique
Capturing the clinician's view : reliability measures
Undertaking systematic reviews