Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R / [electronic resource] Anthony Morton, Kerrie Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby. Morton, Anthony Park, 1933- author. Mengersen, Kerrie L., author. Playford, Geoffrey, author. Whitby, Michael, 1950- author. Hospitals Administration Statistical methods. Hospital Administration. Statistics as Topic. RA971 362.11068 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and.publisher; resource not viewed. 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. 2013 Text 1 online resource. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118639153 eng Statistics in practice Statistics in practice. Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R. Statistical methods for hospital monitoring with R.