TY - BOOK AU - Berman, Evan M. AU - Wang, Xiaohu. TI - Essential statistics for public managers and policy analysis SN - 9781608716777 U1 - 519.5 PY - 2012/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Sage KW - Social sciences--Statistical methods KW - Policy sciences--Statistical methods KW - Public administration--Statistical methods N1 - Why statistics for public managers and analysts? Research design - Conceptualization and measurement Measuring and managing performance: present and future Data collection Central tendency Measures of dispersion Contingency tables Getting results Hypothesis testing with chi-square Measures of association The T-test Analysis of variance Simple regression Multiple regression Simple regression Logistic regression Survey of other techniques ER -