Applied Statistics for Public Policy

Preface Unit I. Descriptive Statistics 1. Introduction: What Is Statistics All About? 2. Using Polystat to Do Statistical Analysis 3. Presentation of Data 4. Summarizing Data and Using Descriptive Statistics Unit II. Basic Probability and Probability Distributions 5. Basic Probability: Theory and Applications 6. Sampling and the Normal Distribution 7. The Central Limit Theorem Unit III. Hypothesis Testing 8. Introduction to Inferential Statistics 9. Estimating Population Means, Proportions, and Sample Size with Confidence 10. Validating a Hypothesis About a Single Population Mean Using a Sample 11. Validating Hypotheses Between Two Population Means 12. Validating Hypotheses About a Single Population Proportion 13. Validating Hypotheses About Two Population Proportions Unit IV. Measures of Association 14. Comparing More than Two Population Means with Anova 15. Comparing More than Two Population Proportions Using the Chi-Square Test 16. Determining Relationships for Two Variables Using Simple Correlation 17. Measuring Relationships Between Two Variables with Simple Regression Analysis 18. Measuring Multivariate Relationships with Multiple Regression Analysis 19. Planning Statistical Research Appendix Key Formulas