Download or read book Statistics for Public Administration written by Maureen Berner and published by International City/County Management Association(ICMA). This book was released on 2013 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Applied Statistics for Public Policy written by Brian P. Macfie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical text provides students with the statistical tools needed to analyze data, and shows how statistics can be used as a tool in making informed, intelligent policy decisions. The authors' approach helps students learn what statistical measures mean and focus on interpreting results, as opposed to memorizing and applying dozens of statistical formulae. The book includes more than 500 end-of-chapter problems, solvable with the easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet application developed by the authors. This template allows students to enter numbers into the appropriate sheet, sit back, and analyze the data. This comprehensive, hands-on textbook requires only a background in high school algebra and has been thoroughly classroom-tested in both undergraduate and graduate level courses. No prior expertise with Excel is required. A disk with the Excel template and the data sets is included with the book, and solutions to the end-of-chapter problems will be provided on the M.E. Sharpe website.
Download or read book Public Policy Analytics written by Ken Steif and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R. Each of the eight chapters provides a detailed case study, showing readers: how to develop exploratory indicators; understand ‘spatial process’ and develop spatial analytics; how to develop ‘useful’ predictive analytics; how to convey these outputs to non-technical decision-makers through the medium of data visualization; and why, ultimately, data science and ‘Planning’ are one and the same. A graduate-level introduction to data science, this book will appeal to researchers and data scientists at the intersection of data analytics and public policy, as well as readers who wish to understand how algorithms will affect the future of government.
Download or read book Public Policy and Statistics written by Sally C. Morton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2000-05-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical yet constructive description of the rich analytical techniques and substantive applications that typify how statistical thinking has been applied at the RAND Corporation over the past two decades. Case studies of public policy problems are useful for teaching because they are familiar: almost everyone knows something abut health insurance, global warming, and capital punishment, to name but a few of the applications covered in this casebook. Each case study has a common format that describes the policy questions, the statistical questions, and the successful and the unsuccessful analytic strategies. Readers should be familiar with basic statistical concepts including sampling and regression. While designed for statistics courses in areas ranging from economics to health policy to the law at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, empirical researchers and policy-makers will also find this casebook informative.
Download or read book Data Science for Public Policy written by Jeffrey C. Chen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in order to further their application in the public sector. An expansion of the quantitative economics frameworks presented in policy and business schools, this book emphasizes the process of asking relevant questions to inform public policy. Its techniques and approaches emphasize data-driven practices, beginning with the basic programming paradigms that occupy the majority of an analyst’s time and advancing to the practical applications of statistical learning and machine learning. The text considers two divergent, competing perspectives to support its applications, incorporating techniques from both causal inference and prediction. Additionally, the book includes open-sourced data as well as live code, written in R and presented in notebook form, which readers can use and modify to practice working with data.
Download or read book Data Analysis for Politics and Policy written by Edward R. Tufte and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1974 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to data analysis; Predictions and projections: some issues of research design; Two-variable linear regression; Multiple regression.
Download or read book Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators written by Masami Nishishiba and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, core text that thoroughly prepares readers to apply research methods and data analysis to the professional environments of public and non-profit administration. The authors expertly incorporate original case examples to demonstrate concepts using “real actors,” facing specific scenarios, in which research methods must be applied. This unique approach—presented in language accessible to both students new to research as well as current practitioners—guides the reader in fully understanding the research options detailed throughout the text.
Download or read book Applied Statistics for Public Policy written by Brian P. Macfie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical text provides students with the statistical tools needed to analyze data, and shows how statistics can be used as a tool in making informed, intelligent policy decisions. The authors' approach helps students learn what statistical measures mean and focus on interpreting results, as opposed to memorizing and applying dozens of statistical formulae. The book includes more than 500 end-of-chapter problems, solvable with the easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet application developed by the authors. This template allows students to enter numbers into the appropriate sheet, sit back, and analyze the data. This comprehensive, hands-on textbook requires only a background in high school algebra and has been thoroughly classroom-tested in both undergraduate and graduate level courses. No prior expertise with Excel is required. A disk with the Excel template and the data sets is included with the book, and solutions to the end-of-chapter problems will be provided on the M.E. Sharpe website.
Download or read book Statistics and Public Policy written by Bruce D. Spencer and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistics — meaning statistical data, statistical methods, and statistical thinking — play important and fascinating roles in public issues. Yet, these roles are sometimes unknown to statistics students and even professional statisticians. This book indicates some connections between statistics and public issues such as government policy- or decision-making, public administration, law, and public debate. This book describes examples of statistics in public policy areas as disparate as national defence, AIDS diffusion, DNA fingerprinting, human rights violations and scientific manpower among other areas. Although a small amount of statistical training is assumed—a minimum of a half year of undergraduate level statistics—the emphasis is on ideas rather than technical detail or mathematical generality. This low technical content makes it accessible to not only statisticians but social scientists as well. It will also be a useful resource for teachers of first year statistics.
Download or read book Introduction to Data Science for Social and Policy Research written by Jose Manuel Magallanes Reyes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide provides a step-by-step approach to data collection, cleaning, formatting, and storage, using Python and R.
Download or read book Exercising Essential Statistics written by Evan Berman and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of critical thinking questions and data-based exercises Exercising Essential Statistics helps students apply the techniques described in Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, Fourth Edition. This accompanying workbook gives students the opportunity to practice these techniques through hands-on, carefully crafted exercises. Various examples are provided from human resource management, organizational behavior, budgeting, and public policy to illustrate how public administrators interact with and analyze data.
Download or read book Real Stats written by Michael A. Bailey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Stats offers an engaging and practical introduction to statistical analysis for upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate students in political science, public policy, and law. Grounded in contemporary understandings of causal inferences, the text invites students to see how econometric tools can help answer important and interesting questions. This emphasis on practical applications, combined with a lively and conversational narrative, provides students with a solid foundation in the analytical tools they will use throughout their academic and professional careers.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy written by Michael Moran and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This work explores the business end of politics, where theory meets practice in the pursuit of public good.
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Download or read book Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts written by Evan Berman and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book ASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation written by Bruno Bertaccini and published by Firenze University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes 40 peer-reviewed short papers submitted to the Scientific Conference titled Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation, aimed at promoting new statistical methods and applications for the evaluation of policies and organized by the Association for Applied Statistics (ASA) and the Dept. of Statistics, Computer Science, Applications DiSIA “G. Parenti” of the University of Florence, jointly with the partners AICQ (Italian Association for Quality Culture), AICQ-CN (Italian Association for Quality Culture North and Centre of Italy), AISS (Italian Academy for Six Sigma), ASSIRM (Italian Association for Marketing, Social and Opinion Research), Comune di Firenze, the SIS – Italian Statistical Society, Regione Toscana and Valmon – Evaluation & Monitoring.
Download or read book Applied Statistics for Public Administration written by Kenneth J. Meier and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first edition, this was the first textbook to be published for methods/statistics courses in Public Administration. Today, Meier and Brudney continue to combine accessibility with an applied approach to presenting research methods. This proven text quickly and easily teaches aspiring public administrators the statistical techniques and methods required in the field.
