Statistics for public administration
Subtitle: practical uses for better decision making
By: Maureen Berner
Publisher: ICMA Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780873261920
Table of contents: title: You have to answer a question : now what do you do? (research design); title: Muck around in the numbers! (descriptive statistics); title: Bring some order to this chaos! (more descriptive statistics); title: The picture is becoming clearer (yet more descriptive statistics); title: How much is not much? (probability); title: That picture doesn't look a thing like me! (samples versus populations); title: The poll numbers are in, and in the lead is.. (taking a sample); title: Can we please start to actually conclude something? (drawing conclusions with nominal or ordinal data); title: Ok, folks, what is causing the problem here? (drawing conclusions with interval data).