TY - JOUR
AU - Vredevoe, Donna L.
AB - Western Journal of Nursing Research published research that utilize the methodologies being discussed. Thus the reader has enough information to decide whether the methodology might be promising for a particular question of interest, and in most cases, an extensive bibliography to pursue in order to gain further understanding that could result in the actual design of a project. Overall the presentation is abstract and in some instances rather technical (for example, the chapter on multidimensional scaling). The book would not appeal to a novice in research, but certainly an individual with some background and experience in research would find the presentation intelligible. Nursing as a clinical discipline is interested in more than the uncovering of relationships among phenomena. The profession is agent; that is, professionals are interested in being able to alter relationships among phenomena to produce alternative outcomes to clients' predicted or current health status. Since there is relatively little that nurses can do directly to clients to "cause" the alternative outcomes to happen, (that is, active cooperation on the part of patients or clients is necessary for nursing interventions to achieve their aims) it would appear that the philosophy of science that takes agency, sub­ jectivity, meaning, 
TI - Book Review: Applied Multiple Regression/Correlation Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences, Hillsdale
JF - Western Journal of Nursing Research
DO - 10.1177/019394598000200320
DA - 1980-07-01
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SP - 630
EP - 631
VL - 2
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -