Statistical understanding

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-131
Author(s):  
Kalyanaraman Kumaran ◽  
Iain Lang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Inferential Statistics ◽  
Two Populations

In public health practice, you are likely to use statistics for two purposes as follows: To summarize information about populations (descriptive statistics); To make inferences from data derived from research or other analysis (inferential statistics). The objective of this chapter is to help you (a) understand when statistical analysis would be useful, and (b) interpret correctly the statistics you encounter. It also contains an outline of how to use standardization to compare two populations.

Statistical understanding

2013 ◽  
pp. 110-116
Author(s):  
Kalyanaraman Kumaran ◽  
Iain Lang
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Inferential Statistics ◽  
Two Populations

The objective of this chapter is to help you to understand when statistical analysis would be useful, and to interpret correctly the statistics you encounter. It also contains an outline of how to use standardization to compare two populations. In public health practice you are likely to use statistics for two purposes: to summarize information about populations (descriptive statistics), and to make inferences from data derived from research or other analysis (inferential statistics).

scholarly journals The role of researchers in disseminating evidence to public health practice settings: a cross-sectional study

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allese B. McVay ◽  
Katherine A. Stamatakis ◽  
Julie A. Jacobs ◽  
Rachel G. Tabak ◽  
Ross C. Brownson
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional
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