Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts

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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. 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