NURSING INFORMATICS

Yapchiongco, Larraine F. BASS, RN, LPT, MAN

Computer Application that
Supports Nursing Research
❒ A. LITERATURE SEARCHES
❒ Reliable Search Engines and data bases
❒ Data Collection and Statistical Tools
❒ 1. On-line Questionnaires
❒ 2. Digital Polls
❒ 3. Survey Monkey
❒ 4. Data Processing and Database Applications:
❒ Spreadsheet
❒ SPSS
❒ SAS
❒ In Vivo
❒ SPSS Statistics is a statistical software suite developed by IBM for data
management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis, business
intelligence, criminal investigation. Long produced by SPSS Inc., it was
acquired by IBM in 2009. Current versions (post 2015) have the brand
name: IBM SPSS Statistics.

❒ The software name originally stood for Statistical Package for the
Social Sciences (SPSS),reflecting the original market, then later
changed to Statistical Product and Service Solutions
❒ SAS Institute (or SAS, pronounced "sass") is an American multinational
developer of analytics software based in Cary, North Carolina. SAS develops
and markets a suite of analytics software (also called SAS), which helps access,
manage, analyze and report on data to aid in decision-making. The company is
the world's largest privately held software business and its software is used by
most of the Fortune 500.

❒ SAS Institute started as a project at North Carolina State University to create a

statistical analysis system (hence the proper name, Statistical Analysis
System) that was originally used primarily by agricultural departments at
universities in the late 1960s. It became an independent, private business led
by current CEO James Goodnight and three other project leaders from the
university in 1976.
❒ InVivoStat is a powerful, free to use, statistical software package which
uses R as its statistics engine. It is designed specifically for scientists
conducting animal experiments.
❒ The package combines complex and powerful statistical tools (within R)
with a user interface that is both easy to use and intuitive to the non-
statistician. While no package can comment on the suitability of a
statistical analysis, InVivoStat has many dataset checks so errors within
the data, that may invalidate the results of the analysis, are identified
prior to analysis
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