Daniel S. Scheller

Elementary Statistics for Public Administration

An Applied Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

Preparing public administration students for practice, this textbook simplifies statistics without compromising analytical and empirical rigor. It includes in-depth instruction of the open statistics software R Commander, including step-by-step screenshots and using applied and theoretical data.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009439954
• ISBN-10: 1009439952
• Artikelnr.: 70361846

Autorenporträt

Daniel S. Scheller is Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program in the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University, USA. His research interests are in urban policy, neighborhood development, housing, and civic participation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Basic Research Design
3. Measurement
4. Good Data Collection
5. R Software and the R Commander
6. Central Tendency
7. Dispersion
8. Data Visualization
9. Sampling and Inference
10. T-Tests
11. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
12. Chi-Square
13. Ordinal Dependent Variables
14. Bivariate Regression
15. Multivariate Regression
16. Regression Assumptions
17. Interactive Relationships and Interaction Terms in Regression
18. Logistic Regression.