TY - BOOK AU - Berman,Evan M. AU - Wang,XiaoHu TI - Essential statistics for public managers and policy analysts SN - 9781608716777 (alk. paper) AV - HA29 .B425 2012 U1 - 519.5 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - CQ Press KW - Public administration KW - Statistical methods KW - Policy sciences N1 - Why statistics for public managers and analysts? -- Research design -- Conceptualization and measurement -- Measuring and managing performance: present and future -- Data collection -- Central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- Contingency tables -- Getting results -- Hypothesis testing with chi-square -- Measures of association -- The T-test -- Analysis of variance -- Simple regression -- Multiple regression -- Logistic regression -- Time series analysis -- Survey of other techniques ER -