Test Bank for Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, 4th Edition Evan Berman Xiaohu Wang

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781506364315
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506364315
• Author: Evan M. Berman

Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them. The Fourth Edition continues to offer a conceptual understanding of statistics that can be applied readily to the real-life challenges of public administrators and policy analysts. The book provides examples from the areas of human resources management, organizational behavior, budgeting, and public policy to illustrate how public administrators interact with and analyze data.

Table Of Contents:

Preface xvi

Acknowledgments xxi

Statistics Roadmap xxii

Section I Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Why Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts? 4

Chapter Objectives 4

Role of Data in Public Management 4

Competency and Proficiency 6

Ethics in Data Analysis and Research 10

Summary 15

Key Terms 15

Section II Research Methods 17

Chapter 2 Research Design 21

Chapter Objectives 21

Introducing Variables and Their Relationships 21

Program Evaluation 26

Six Steps 28

Rival Hypotheses and Limitations of Experimental Study Designs 30

A Bit More: Extending through Quasi-experimental Design 32

Summary 38

Key Terms 39

Chapter 3 Conceptualization and Measurement 42

Chapter Objectives 42

Measurement Levels and Scales 42

Conceptualization 47

Operationalization 49

Index Variables 52

Measurement Validity 54

Summary 56

Key Terms 57

Chapter 4 Measuring and Managing Performance: Present and Future 59

Chapter Objectives 59

Performance Measurement 60

The Logic Model 61

Further Examples 65

Managing Performance 66

Efficiency Effectiveness, and a Bit More 68

Peering Into the Future: Forecasting 72

Summary 75

Key Terms 76

Chapter 5 Data Collection 78

Chapter Objectives 78

Sources of Data 79

Administrative Data 79

Secondary Data 81

Surveys 83

Other Sources 87

Sampling 88

When Is a Sample Needed? 89

How Should Samples Be Selected? 89

How Large Should the Sample Be? 91

Data Input 94

Putting It Together 96

Summary 98

Key Terms 99

Section III Descriptive Statistics 103

Chapter 6 Central Tendency 105

Chapter Objectives 105

The Mean 106

The Median 110

The Mode 112

Summary 112

Key Terms 113

Appendix 6.1 Using Grouped Data 113

Chapter 7 Measures of Dispersion 117

Chapter Objectives 117

Frequency Distributions 118

Standard Deviation 121

Definition 121

Some Applications of Standard Deviation 124

Summary 127

Key Terms 127

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