Exercising Essential Statistics

Fourth Edition
Evan M. Berman
XiaoHu Wang
Exercising Essential Statistics
January 2017 | 184 pages | CQ Press
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Description

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.

Contents

Introduction

  • Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 2 Research Design
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5 Data Collection
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 6 Central Tendency
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 8 Contingency Tables
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 9 Getting Results
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 10 Introducing Inference: Estimation from Samples
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 12 The T-Test
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 14 Simple Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 15 Multiple Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 16 Logistic Regression and Time Series Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 17 Survey of Other Techniques
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercise
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 18 Excel User’s Guide
  • Loading the Data Analysis ToolPak
  • Locating the Insert Function (fx)
  • The Excel Sheet Screen and Descriptive Statistics Procedure
  • Frequency Distributions
  • Chi-Square Test
  • One-Sample T-Test
  • Two-Samples T-Test
  • ANOVA
  • Regression
  • Creating Charts in Excel
  • Chapter 19 SPSS User’s Guide
  • SPSS Screens
  • Creating a Variable
  • Univariate Analysis: Means and Frequency Distributions
  • Variable Labels and Values
  • Defining Missing Values
  • Selecting a Subset of Observations for Analysis
  • Index Variables I: Cronbach Alpha
  • Index Variables II: Construction
  • Recoding Data
  • Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
  • T-Tests
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 20 Dataset Documentation
  • Public Perceptions
  • Employee Attitudes
  • Community Indicators
  • Watershed
  • Productivity
  • Crime
  • Time
  • Florida County Conservation Spending Database

Additional materials

Description

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.

Contents

Introduction

  • Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 2 Research Design
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5 Data Collection
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 6 Central Tendency
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 8 Contingency Tables
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 9 Getting Results
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 10 Introducing Inference: Estimation from Samples
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 12 The T-Test
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 14 Simple Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 15 Multiple Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 16 Logistic Regression and Time Series Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 17 Survey of Other Techniques
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercise
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 18 Excel User’s Guide
  • Loading the Data Analysis ToolPak
  • Locating the Insert Function (fx)
  • The Excel Sheet Screen and Descriptive Statistics Procedure
  • Frequency Distributions
  • Chi-Square Test
  • One-Sample T-Test
  • Two-Samples T-Test
  • ANOVA
  • Regression
  • Creating Charts in Excel
  • Chapter 19 SPSS User’s Guide
  • SPSS Screens
  • Creating a Variable
  • Univariate Analysis: Means and Frequency Distributions
  • Variable Labels and Values
  • Defining Missing Values
  • Selecting a Subset of Observations for Analysis
  • Index Variables I: Cronbach Alpha
  • Index Variables II: Construction
  • Recoding Data
  • Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
  • T-Tests
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 20 Dataset Documentation
  • Public Perceptions
  • Employee Attitudes
  • Community Indicators
  • Watershed
  • Productivity
  • Crime
  • Time
  • Florida County Conservation Spending Database

Additional materials

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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.


Table Of Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 2 Research Design
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5 Data Collection
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Application Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 6 Central Tendency
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 8 Contingency Tables
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 9 Getting Results
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 10 Introducing Inference: Estimation from Samples
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 11 Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 12 The T-Test
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 14 Simple Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 15 Multiple Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 16 Logistic Regression and Time Series Regression
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercises
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 17 Survey of Other Techniques
  • Q & A
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data-Based Exercise
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 18 Excel User’s Guide
  • Loading the Data Analysis ToolPak
  • Locating the Insert Function (fx)
  • The Excel Sheet Screen and Descriptive Statistics Procedure
  • Frequency Distributions
  • Chi-Square Test
  • One-Sample T-Test
  • Two-Samples T-Test
  • ANOVA
  • Regression
  • Creating Charts in Excel
  • Chapter 19 SPSS User’s Guide
  • SPSS Screens
  • Creating a Variable
  • Univariate Analysis: Means and Frequency Distributions
  • Variable Labels and Values
  • Defining Missing Values
  • Selecting a Subset of Observations for Analysis
  • Index Variables I: Cronbach Alpha
  • Index Variables II: Construction
  • Recoding Data
  • Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
  • T-Tests
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 20 Dataset Documentation
  • Public Perceptions
  • Employee Attitudes
  • Community Indicators
  • Watershed
  • Productivity
  • Crime
  • Time
  • Florida County Conservation Spending Database

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