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The key to success…practice, practice, practice.

Mirroring chapters in the text, this companion workbook offers students the opportunity to put their new skills to work. With critical thinking questions, data-based exercises, helpful tips on data presentation, and suggested reading lists, this handy workbook continues instruction from the text and gets students comfortable using and applying each technique. The workbook also includes a helpful software guide—How to Use SPSS—to capitalize on the value of computers in methods courses. Freeing students from time-consuming calculations, SPSS allows for quick results interpretation and data validation.

The workbook’s CD-ROM includes seven data sets that cover a range of measures and applications from citizen and employee survey data and community indicators, to time series data of juvenile crimes, to an assessment of watersheds developed by the EPA, to regression analysis of pollution, productivity improvement, and crime. The data sets are available in a range of formats—SPSS, SAS, SYSTAT, and STATA—for maximum flexibility.

1. Why Statistics for Public Managers and Analysts?
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Application Exercises
Further Reading

2. Research Design
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Application Exercises
Further Reading

3. Conceptualization and Measurement
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Application Exercises
Further Reading

4. Measuring Performance: Present and Future
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Application Exercises
Further Reading

5. Data Collection
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Application Exercises
Further Reading

6. Central Tendency
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

7. Measures of Dispersion
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

8. Contingency Tables
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

9. Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

10. Measures of Association
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

11. The T-Test
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

12. Simple Regression
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

13. Multiple Regression
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

14. Logistic Regression
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

15. Time Series Analysis
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

16. Survey of Advanced Techniques
Q & A
Critical Thinking
Data-Based Exercises
Further Reading

17. SPSS User’s Guide
SPSS Screens
Creating a Variable
Univariate Analysis: Means and Frequency Distributions
Variable Labels and Values
Defining Missing Values
Selecting a Subset of Observations for Analysis
Index Variables I: Cronbach Alpha
Index Variables II: Construction
Recoding Data
Hypothesis Testing with Chi-Square
T-Tests
Conclusion

18. Dataset Documentation
Public Perceptions
Employee Attitudes
Community Indicators
Watershed
Productivity
Crime
Time

“Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts is a compact but comprehensive exploration of data analysis in the public context and research methods. With coverage of techniques from univariate statistics to advanced topics including forecasting, factor analysis and logit, this text is an excellent primer in statistics and their appropriate application in the public sector. The accompanying workbook highlights important concepts and points from the text with critical thinking and data-based exercises. Together, the text and workbook supply a solid overview of research methods and statistics and would be a handy reference for the student, scholar, or practitioner.”

“Evan Berman has successfully provided an introduction to statistics that is perfect for public policy and administration students who lack a mathematical background. The book is logical in it organization and presentation. The text is concise yet thorough in its discussion of a wide variety of techniques. In addition, Essential Statistics concentrates on the use and meaning of each technique and avoids unnecessary mathematical presentations. Because of its readability, I think students will hold on to this book as a reference long after they leave school.”

“This book is an excellent source for Public Management and Policy students taking introductory and advance statistics courses. The book is organized into 5 sections that identify the topics that are covered. It also includes a workbook and CD that include exercises with applications in public management and policy analysis. The CD consists of datasets formatted for SPSS, STATA, and other popular statistical software packages. The textbook, workbook, and CD provide students with the opportunity to become familiar with statistical techniques and apply these techniques in a public setting.”

Evan M. Berman is the Huey McElveen Distinguished Professor at Louisiana State University in public administration. He has served as a policy analyst for the National Science Foundation and as a consultant to the National Academy of Sciences and U.S. Congress. He is also an editor of Public Performance & Management Review. His areas of expertise include quantitative methods, survey research, program evaluation, productivity, ethics and human resource management. He is the author of over 100 publications. His most recent books include Performance and Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations (2006, 2nd edition) and Human Resource Management in Public Service: Paradoxes, Processes, and Problems(2006, 2nd edition), coauthored with James Bowman, Jonathan West and Montgomery Van Wart and recipient of the Best Public Sector Human Resource Book by the Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration.

Instructor’s Resources

Pressed for time during the semester? You’ll appreciate a wealth of helpful resources created by Evan Berman: sample syllabi, lesson plans, solutions to workbook exercises, test questions, and PowerPoint lecture slides.

Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, 2nd Edition

Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts, 2nd Edition + Exercising Essential Statistics, 2nd Edition Package

Essential Statistics, 2nd Edition + Exercising Essential Statistics, 2nd Edition + SPSS Student-Version Software Package