
Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts
CQ Press
3rd Edition
Published on 31. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-1-60871-677-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, this new, Third Edition of Essential Statistics provides students with a strong conceptual foundation, but continues to stress application. Class-tested learning objectives, key term lists, and numeroustables, figures, and charts further enhance skill acquisition.
Fully updated, this edition touts:
- two new chapters on applications in performance management and analysis and ANOVA
- new coverage of essential nonparametric alternatives to conventional inferential statistics
- additional material on performance management, going beyond an emphasis on performance measurement.
Fully updated, this edition touts:
- two new chapters on applications in performance management and analysis and ANOVA
- new coverage of essential nonparametric alternatives to conventional inferential statistics
- additional material on performance management, going beyond an emphasis on performance measurement.
Reviews / Votes
"Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts is a very useful presentation of statistics in the context of public administration, and at the right level. It gives a welcome refresher for my graduate students who have not taken statistics recently, while also being appropriately challenging for students who are more up-to-date in their statistics education." -- David Oliver Kasdan "I highly value the clarity and straightforwardness of the book, and particularly like the fact that Essential Statistics does not force us to use one particular statistical software platform. The topics are discussed in a comprehensive fashion, such that the book can transition from the student bookcase to the professional library without problem. We tell our students that this is a 'keeper.'" -- Fernando De Paolis "This is the perfect text to use with future public administrators, non-profit agency directors, policy analysts, and health care analysts. It is very user-friendly. The workbook and online resources, too, are excellent." -- M. Raymond AlvarezMore details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
507 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60871-677-7 (9781608716777)
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Persons
Evan M. Berman is Professor of Public Management at Fundacao Getulio Vargas, EAESP (Sao Paulo, Brazil), specializing in human resource management, public performance, and comparative public administration. Previously, he was Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University. Dr. Berman is ranked among the very top scholars in public administration world-wide. He has received the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the American Society for Public Administration (Section on Personnel and Labor Relations) for contributions to research, teaching and service in public sector HRM, and many other awards, including from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), the accrediting body for public administration programs. He has authored 15 books and over 175 publications, in all of the leading journals of the discipline. Dr Berman has chaired ASPA's Section on Personnel and Labor Relations, he is founding editor of ASPA's Book Series in Public Administration and Public Policy, senior editor of Public Performance and Management Review, and a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar. His 2023 book, Performance and Innovation in the Public Sector (with I. Hijal-Moghrabi), won the 2024 ASPA/SPALR Outstanding Book Award. Evan is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and Visiting Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai) and University of Indonesia (Jakarta).
Content
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
PART TWO: RESEARCH METHODS
Research Design
Conceptualization and Measurement
Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
Data Collection
PART THREE: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
Contingency Tables
Getting Results
PART FOUR: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Hypothesis Testing with Chi-square
Measures of Association
The T-test
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Simple Regression
Multiple Regression
PART FIVE: FURTHER STATISTICS
Logistic Regression
Time Series Analysis
Survey of Other Techniques
Appendix: Statistical Tables
Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
PART TWO: RESEARCH METHODS
Research Design
Conceptualization and Measurement
Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future
Data Collection
PART THREE: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
Contingency Tables
Getting Results
PART FOUR: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Hypothesis Testing with Chi-square
Measures of Association
The T-test
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Simple Regression
Multiple Regression
PART FIVE: FURTHER STATISTICS
Logistic Regression
Time Series Analysis
Survey of Other Techniques
Appendix: Statistical Tables