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" Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R / "
Anthony Morton, Kerrie Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby
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BL
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640844
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Morton, Anthony Park,1933-
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Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R /\ Anthony Morton, Kerrie Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby
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| Series Statement
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Statistics in practice
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9781118639177
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: 1118639170
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: 1118639162
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: 1118596307
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: 9781118596302
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9781118596302
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Proportion -- Risk adjustment -- Cusum and related charts for binary data -- Introduction rate and count data -- Introduction, data, limitations of aggregated count data analysis -- Arranging data by weeks, months, quarters -- Multiple antibiotic-resistant organism (MRO) prevalence -- Overview of hospital quality improvement
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Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suite of functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working in infection management and quality improvement departments in hospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which is frequently in the form of trended, over-dispersed and sometimes auto-correlated time series; this is often difficult to analyse using standard office software. This book provides much-needed guidance on data analy
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Hospitals-- Administration-- Statistical methods
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Efficiency, Organizational
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Health services administration
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Hospital administration
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Statistics as topic
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Hospital Administration.
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Statistics as Topic.
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362.11068
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RA971
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WX 150.1
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Mengersen, Kerrie L.
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Playford, Geoffrey
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Whitby, Michael,1950-
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