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Exercising Essential Statistics
3rd Edition
- Evan Berman - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Xiaohu Wang - City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, University of Central Florida, USA
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Public Management
November 2011 | 192 pages | CQ Press
With new critical thinking questions, data-based exercises, tips on data presentation, and suggested reading lists, this workbook gets students comfortable applying each technique. Helpful software primers on SPSS and Excel provide essential skills. The workbook's CD includes seven data sets that cover a range of measures and applications (available in SPSS, SAS, SYSTAT, Stata, and Excel).
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
PART TWO: RESEARCH METHODS
Research Design
Conceptualization and Measurement
Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
Data Collection
PART THREE: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
Contingency Tables
Getting Results
PART FOUR: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Hypothesis Testing with Chi-square
Measures of Association
The T-test
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Simple Regression
Multiple Regression
PART FIVE: FURTHER STATISTICS
Logistic Regression
Time Series Analysis
Survey of Other Techniques
Appendix: Statistical Tables
Clear language perfect for early graduate students.
Public Administration Dept, Rutgers University-Newark
August 11, 2016
This text is essential reading for every student research project as it provides the hands-on focus and experimentation in a variety statistical analysis methods.
These skills and appraoches are so often not taught formally within HE expect to facilitate PhD research and many undergraduate and postgraduate students miss out on this understanding.
The structured approach of this text make it an ideal teching and learning resource.
Business Administration , University College Birmingham
April 10, 2013
This book is very useful for public health students, it simplify the statistics. I would highly recommend it for those who have basic knowledge in statistics.
Nuffield Ctr for Int'l Health & Dev, Leeds University
July 31, 2012
