Applied statistics for public policy
By: by Brian P. Macfie and Philip M. Nufrio.
Contributors: Nufrio, Philip M.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
Subjects: Social sciences -- Statistical methods.; Political statistics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unit I. Descriptive statistics; title: Introduction : what is statistics all about?; title: Using polystat to do statistical analysis; title: Presentation of data; title: Summarizing data and using descriptive statistics; title: Unit II. Basic probability and probability distributions; title: Basic probability : theory and applications; title: Sampling and the normal distribution; title: The central limit theorem; title: Unit III. Hypothesis testing; title: Introduction to inferential statistics; title: Estimating population means, proportions, and sample size with confidence; title: Validating a hypothesis about a single population mean using a sample; title: Validating hypotheses between two population means; title: Validating hypotheses about a single population proportion; title: Validating hypotheses about two population proportions; title: Unit IV. Measures of association; title: Comparing more than two population means with anova; title: Comparing more than two population proportions using the chi-square test; title: Determining relationships for two variables using simple correlation; title: Measuring relationships between two variables with simple regression analysis; title: Measuring multivariate relationships with multiple regression analysis; title: Planning statistical research.