Practical Research Methods for Physiotherapists

Approaches to statistics; inferential statistics - some basic concepts involved in designing research projects which test a specific hypothesis; further aspects of research design; levels of measurement; matching the research design to the statistical test; non-parametric tests for the same and matched subject designs; parametric tests for the same and matched subjects designs; non-parametric tests for different subject designs; parametric tests for different subject designs; non-parametric and parametric statistical tests for correlational designs; putting theory into practice; writing up the research for publication. Appendices: basic mathematical principles; statistical tables; answers to exercises.