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Statistics for public administration : practical uses for better decision making / Maureen Berner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berner, Maureen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public administration--Statistical methods.
- Public administration.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : ICMA Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- You have to answer a question : now what do you do? (research design)
- Muck around in the numbers! (descriptive statistics)
- Bring some order to this chaos! (more descriptive statistics)
- The picture is becoming clearer (yet more descriptive statistics)
- How much is not much? (probability)
- That picture doesn't look a thing like me! (samples versus populations)
- The poll numbers are in, and in the lead is
- (taking a sample)
- Can we please start to actually conclude something? (drawing conclusions with nominal or ordinal data)
- Ok, folks, what is causing the problem here? (drawing conclusions with interval data).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0873261925
- 9780873261920
- OCLC:
- 500801388
- Publisher Number:
- 99943943837
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