Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts

✍ Scribed by Evan M. Berman, XiaoHu Wang

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 509
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them. The Fourth Edition continues to offer a conceptual understanding of statistics that can be applied readily to the real-life challenges of public administrators and policy analysts. The book provides examples from the areas of human resources management, organizational behavior, budgeting, and public policy to illustrate how public administrators interact with and analyze data.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title
Publisher Note
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Table List
Preface
Acknowledgments
Statistics Roadmap
Section I Introduction
Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts?
Section II Research Methods
Chapter 2 Research Design
Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement
Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
Chapter 5 Data Collection
Section III Descriptive Statistics
Chapter 6 Central Tendency
Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion
Chapter 8 Contingency Tables
Chapter 9 Getting Results
Section IV Inferential Statistics
Chapter 10 Introducing Inference: Estimation from Samples
Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
Chapter 12 The T-Test
Chapter 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Chapter 14 Simple Regression
Chapter 15 Multiple Regression
Section V Further Statistics
Chapter 16 Logistic and Time Series Regression
Chapter 17 Survey of Other Techniques
Appendixes
Glossary
Index
About the Authors