Essential statistics for public managers and policy analysts/ Evan M. Berman, XiaoHu Wang.
Physical description:
xix, 369 p. ill. 23 cm.;
Edition:
3rd ed.;
Author(s): BERMAN, Evan M.;
Wang, XiaoHu;
ISBN:
9781608716777 (alk. paper;
Subjects: Public administration --Statistical methods.;
Policy sciences --Statistical methods.;
Formatted contents notes:
Why statistics for public managers and analysts? -- Research design -- Conceptualization and measurement -- Measuring and managing performance: present and future -- Data collection -- Central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- Contingency tables -- Getting results -- Hypothesis testing with chi-square -- Measures of association -- The T-test -- Analysis of variance -- Simple regression -- Multiple regression -- Logistic regression -- Time series analysis -- Survey of other techniques.;
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : CQ Press , c2012.;
Call number: 519.5 BER;
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