Exercising Essential Statistics
Fourth Edition
- Evan Berman - Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Fundação Getulio Vargas’s Sao Paulo School of Business Administration, Brazil
- Xiaohu Wang - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
January 2017 | 184 pages | CQ Press
Through the use of critical thinking questions and data-based exercises Exercising Essential Statistics helps students apply the techniques described in Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Fourth Edition. This accompanying workbook gives students the opportunity to practice these techniques through hands-on, carefully crafted exercises. Various examples are provided from human resource management, organizational behavior, budgeting, and public policy to illustrate how public administrators interact with and analyze data.
To pair this companion workbook with Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Fourth Edition use bundle ISBN: 978-1-5063-7366-9. Click here to see more information about the main text.
To pair this companion workbook with Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Fourth Edition use bundle ISBN: 978-1-5063-7366-9. Click here to see more information about the main text.
Introduction
Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
Chapter 2 Research Design
Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement
Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
Chapter 5 Data Collection
Chapter 6 Central Tendency
Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion
Chapter 8 Contingency Tables
Chapter 9 Getting Results
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
Chapter 16 Logistic Regression and Time Series Regression
Chapter 17 Survey of Other Techniques
Chapter 18 Excel User’s Guide
Chapter 19 SPSS User’s Guide
Chapter 20 Dataset Documentation