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Exercising Essential Statistics
Fourth Edition
- Evan Berman - Fundação Getulio Vargas, 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
Supplements
Instructor Site
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
Password-protected Instructor Resources include the following:
- Sample course syllabi for semester and quarter courses provide suggested models for structuring one’s course.
- A set of all the graphics from the text, including all of the maps, tables, and figures, in PowerPoint, .pdf, and .jpg formats for class presentations.
- A Microsoft® Word test bank, is available containing multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The test bank provides you with a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity for editing any question and/or inserting your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding.
- Editable, chapter-specific Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides offer you complete flexibility in easily creating a multimedia presentation for your course. Highlight essential content and features.
- And much more!
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