Applied Statistics for Public Policy (Hardcover)

Preface; Unit I. Descriptive Statistics; 1. Introduction: What Is Statistics All About? 2. Using Polystat to Do Statistical Analysis; 3. Presentation of Data; 4. Summarizing Data and Using Descriptive Statistics; Unit II. Basic Probability and Probability Distributions; 5. Basic Probability: Theory and Applications; 6. Sampling and the Normal Distribution; 7. The Central Limit Theorem; Unit III. Hypothesis Testing; 8. Introduction to Inferential Statistics; 9. Estimating Population Means, Proportions, and Sample Size with Confidence; 10. Validating a Hypothesis About a Single Population Mean Using a Sample; 11. Validating Hypotheses Between Two Population Means; 12. Validating Hypotheses About a Single Population Proportion; 13. Validating Hypotheses About Two Population Proportions; Unit IV. Measures of Association; 14. Comparing More than Two Population Means with Anova; 15. Comparing More than Two Population Proportions Using the Chi-Square Test; 16. Determining Relationships for Two Variables Using Simple Correlation; 17. Measuring Relationships Between Two Variables with Simple Regression Analysis; 18. Measuring Multivariate Relationships with Multiple Regression Analysis; 19. Planning Statistical Research; Appendix; Key Formulas