The book’s explanations, descriptions, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises create the skills and knowledge required of a policy analyst, advisor, consultant or the elected or appointed public official or nonprofit officer who wants to be better able to interpret and evaluate others’ applied social research. Its data sets, solutions sets, instructors’ manual, lecture slides, and student workbook provide instructors with a complete and fully integrated instructional package. The book helps readers understand how to collect, manage, evaluate, and analyze data. It also provides guidelines for the presentation of analyses, especially for nonacademic audiences without training in statistical analysis. These guidelines help ensure that statistics and graphical displays tell the story that analysts want to convey while protecting their analysis from methodological criticism. INDICE: PREFACE / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / Introduction / Research Design and Data Collection / Measurement / Data Editing, Transformation, Index Constructionand Weights / Statistics as Description / Charts and Graphs / Percentages andContingency Tables / Samples and Statistical Inference / Statistics as Group Differences / Statistics as Relationships / Regression Analysis / Detecting and Correcting Violations of Regression Assumptions / Time Series Analysis, Program Assessment, and Forecasting / Presenting Persuasive Statistical Analyses /REFERENCES / APPENDIX A: FROM WHENCE DO DATA COME? KEY STATISTICAL SITES FROMTHE U.S. GOVERNMENT / APPENDIX B: HOW TO SELECT THE RIGHT STATISTICS / APPENDIX C: IN-CLASS QUESTIONNAIRE
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-7496-7
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés