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Table of Contents:

• Tables, Figures, and Boxes
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Statistics Roadmap
• Section I: Introduction
• Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts?
• Chapter Objectives
• Role of Data in Public Management
• Competency and Proficiency
• Ethics in Data Analysis and Research
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Section II: Research Methods
• Chapter 2 Research Design
• Chapter Objectives
• Introducing Variables and Their Relationships
• Program Evaluation
• A Bit More: Extending through Quasi-experimental Design
• Summary
• Key Terms

• Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement
• Chapter Objectives
• Measurement Levels and Scales
• Conceptualization
• Operationalization
• Index Variables
• Measurement Validity
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
• Chapter Objectives
• Performance Measurement
• Managing Performance
• Efficiency, Effectiveness, and a Bit More
• Peering Into the Future: Forecasting
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 5 Data Collection
• Chapter Objectives
• Sources of Data
• Sampling
• Data Input
• Putting It Together
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Section III: Descriptive Statistics
• Chapter 6 Central Tendency
• Chapter Objectives
• The Mean
• The Median
• The Mode
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Appendix 6.1: Using Grouped Data
• Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion
• Chapter Objectives
• Frequency Distributions
• Standard Deviation
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Appendix 7.1: Boxplots
• Chapter 8 Contingency Tables
• Chapter Objectives
• Contingency Tables
• Relationship and Direction
• Pivot Tables
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 9 Getting Results
• Chapter Objectives
• Analysis of Outputs and Outcomes
• Analysis of Efficiency and Effectiveness
• Analysis of Equity
• Quality-of-Life Analysis
• A Bit of Forecasting, Too
• Some Cautions in Analysis and Presentation
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Appendix 9.1: Forecasting with Periodic Effects
• Section IV: Inferential Statistics
• Chapter 10 Introducing Inference: Estimation from Samples
• Chapter Objectives
• From Sample to Population
• Statistical Estimation of Population Parameters
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
• Chapter Objectives
• What Is Chi-Square?
• Hypothesis Testing
• The Goodness-of-Fit Test
• A Nonparametric Alternative
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Appendix 11.1: Rival Hypotheses: Adding a Control Variable
• Appendix 11.2: Some Nonparametric Tests for Specific Situations
• Chapter 12 The T-Test
• Chapter Objectives
• T-Tests for Independent Samples
• Two T-Test Variations
• Nonparametric Alternatives to T-Tests
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
• Chapter Objectives
• Analysis of Variance
• A Nonparametric Alternative
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 14 Simple Regression
• Chapter Objectives
• Simple Regression
• Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
• Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 15 Multiple Regression
• Chapter Objectives
• Model Specification
• A Working Example
• Further Statistics
• Use of Nominal Variables
• Testing Assumptions
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Section V: Further Statistics
• Chapter 16 Logistic and Time Series Regression
• Chapter Objectives
• The Logistic Model
• A Working Example
• Time Series in Multiple Regression
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Chapter 17 Survey of Other Techniques
• Chapter Objectives
• Path Analysis
• Statistical Forecasting
• Survival Analysis
• Factor Analysis
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Appendixes
• A: Normal Distribution
• B: Chi-Square (c2) Distribution
• C: T-Test Distribution
• D: Durbin-Watson Distribution
• E: F-Test Distribution
• Glossary
• Index
• About the Authors

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Author/Creator:

Berman, Evan M. , author

Contributors:

Wang, XiaoHu, 1962- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Essential statistics for public managers and policy analysts [by Berman, E.M.]

Subjects:

Public administration — Statistical methods

Policy sciences — Statistical methods

Public administration

Policy sciences

General Notes:

Previous edition issued in print: 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Physical Description:

1 online resource

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text file

Call Numbers:

HA29 .B425 2002eb

ISBNs:

9781506364292 (ePub ebook)
1506364292

OCLC Numbers:

1222796864