This unique combination of examples, exercises, and contemporary data gives you hands-on experience in analyzing data and makes learning about data analysis and statistical software relevant, unintimidating, and even fun!Ī data CD-ROM is included with this book. With this book, you’ll learn how to describe data, test hypotheses, and examine relationships using PASW.Īuthor Marija Norušis incorporates a wealth of real data, including the General Social Survey and studies of Internet usage, opinions of the criminal justice system, marathon running times, library patronage, and the importance of manners, throughout the examples and expanded chapter exercises. Easy-to-understand explanations and in-depth content make this guide both an excellent supplement to other statistics texts and a superb primary text for any introductory data analysis course. The study results will be helpful to the ophthalmic libraries, ophthalmic institutions, information service providers, and ophthalmic community to provide adequate steps in line to enhance the ophthalmologists’ information use.The PASW Statistics 18 Guide to Data Analysis is a friendly introduction to both data analysis and PASW Statistics 18 (formerly SPSS Statistics), the world’s leading desktop statistical software package. General recommendation was significantly higher than the recommendations for library factor. The two major factors of ophthalmologists’ recommendations for effective use were for library and in general. The statistical test results showed up that there exists a significant difference between recommendations of ophthalmologists and age group, designation, experience, institution type. The study results revealed that majority of the ophthalmologists recommended "Advanced tools should be developed to access information" which is followed by "Allocate adequate funding for journal subscription" and "Library collection should be improved". Frequencies, percentages, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Factor Analysis, Wilcoxon signed rank test were used in the study.Īround 633 ophthalmologists working in 47 academic eye hospitals from 16 states of India were included in the study. SPSS 18 PASW Statistical package was used for statistical analysis. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The study design is cross sectional and convenience sampling method is adopted. The present study attempted to determine the recommendations for effective information use as preferred by the ophthalmologists. Ophthalmologists – Eye Doctors working in academic eye hospitals need, seek and use information for their services towards patient care, teaching, research, etc.
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