Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts

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