LibGuides: SWSLHD Research News: Health statistics and useful links

HealthStats NSW

Have you heard about HealthStats NSW?

HealthStats NSW is an interactive, public website bringing together data from many sources to produce ready-to-use statistics, flexible analysis tools and custom reports about the health of the state's population.

Users can view and download data and select indicators to produce tailored reports. Data available on HealthStats NSW provides valuable insights into a wide range of health determinants and outcomes.

Statistics software

jamovi statistical package
jamovi is a free and open statistical platform based on the R statistical language. The main difference is that whereas in the R package users have to write their own programming code, jamovi allows “point and click” and is intuitive to use. At the core of the jamovi philosophy, is that scientific software should be “community driven”, where anyone can develop and publish analyses, and make them available to a wide audience. jamovi provides a complete suite of analyses: t-tests, ANOVAs, correlation and regression, non-parametric tests, contingency tables, reliability and factor analysis.
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If jamovi does not have the test/program that you need (e.g. program to draw scatter plots or to conduct survival analysis), then it may be available in the jamovi library (https://www.jamovi.org/library.html). This is a library of additional analyses contributed by experts in their field and which can be downloaded and stored within the jamovi statistical package.
jamovi is also a fully functional spreadsheet. One can enter, copy/paste data, filter rows, compute new values, and perform transforms across many columns at once, providing a streamlined spreadsheet experience, optimised for statistical data.
Many online resources that assist with using jamovi are available at https://www.jamovi.org/community.html and a free textbook on statistics and jamovi (Learning Statistics with jamovi) is included below. The textbook is easy to read and provides examples on using jamovi. This statistical software will be suitable for most people who are beginners or intermediate users and would prefer not to write their own statistical programs.

Learning statistics with jamovi
learning statistics with jamovi covers the contents of an introductory statistics class, as typically
taught to undergraduate psychology students. The book discusses how to get started in jamovi
as well as giving an introduction to data manipulation. From a statistical perspective, the book
discusses descriptive statistics and graphing first, followed by chapters on probability theory,
sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. After introducing the theory, the book
covers the analysis of contingency tables, correlation, t-tests, regression, ANOVA and factor
analysis. Bayesian statistics are covered at the end of the book.

Useful websites and research resources

New releases from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare new report releases
The AIHW aims to provide authoritative and accessible information and statistics to inform better policy and service delivery decisions leading to better health and wellbeing for all Australians. Focused on turning data into useful information and telling the broader story

Some recent reports:

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Featured interactive report: See how patients in SWSLHD reported their experience compared to other Primary Health Networks

Literature search filters

Search filters are pre-tested strategies that identify the higher quality evidence from the vast amounts of literature indexed in the major medical databases. Search filters help to refine the results according to study designs (e.g experimental studies, RCTs or qualitative studies) or the target of interest (e.g gender studies).

Remember experienced and expert clinical Library staff are available to assist you with your literature searches. You can request a search be done for you or work with us to design an effective search strategy.