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Applied statistics for public policy
- Author
- Macfie, Brian P., 1955-
- Title
- Applied statistics for public policy / Brian P. Macfie and Philip M. Nufrio.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2006.
- Description
- xv, 536 p. : ill. ; 26 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
- URL
- <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023626.html <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023626.html
- Other contributors
- Nufrio, Philip M.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Unit I. Descriptive statistics
- Introduction : what is statistics all about?
- Using polystat to do statistical analysis
- Presentation of data
- Summarizing data and using descriptive statistics
- Unit II. Basic probability and probability distributions
- Basic probability : theory and applications
- Sampling and the normal distribution
- The central limit theorem
- Unit III. Hypothesis testing
- Introduction to inferential statistics
- Estimating population means, proportions, and sample size with confidence
- Validating a hypothesis about a single population mean using a sample
- Validating hypotheses between two population means
- Validating hypotheses about a single population proportion
- Validating hypotheses about two population proportions
- Unit IV. Measures of association
- Comparing more than two population means with anova
- Comparing more than two population proportions using the chi-square test
- Determining relationships for two variables using simple correlation
- Measuring relationships between two variables with simple regression analysis
- Measuring multivariate relationships with multiple regression analysis
- Planning statistical research.
- Subject headings
- Social sciences--Statistical methods. Political statistics.
- ISBN
- 0765612399 (cloth : alk. paper)