Essential statistics for public managers and policy analysts - Berman, Evan M.; Wang, Xiaohu (Thousand Oaks, California SAGE CQ Press, 2018)
Why statistics for public managers and policy analysts. -- Research design. -- Conceptualization and measurement. -- Measuring and managing performance: present and future. -- Data collection. -- Central tendency. -- Measures of dispersion. -- Contingency tables. -- Getting results. -- Introducing inference: estimation from samples. -- Hypothesis testing with chi-square. -- The t-test. -- Analysis of variance (ANOVA). -- Simple regression. -- Multiple regression. -- Logistic and time series regression. -- Survey of other techniques.
Includes index.
Keywords: Public administration -- Statistical methods; Policy sciences -- Statistical methods; Social sciences -- Statistical methods