01692cam a22001694a 4500020003600000050001500036100002200051245004300073260004100116300003700157500002000194505115900214650004301373650002601416700002201442856005801464  a0765612399 (cloth : alk. paper)00aHA 29bMAC1 aMacfie, Brian P.,10aApplied statistics for public policy /  aArmonk, N.Y. :bM.E. Sharpe,cc2006.  axv, 536 pages :bIllustrations ;  aIncludes index.0 aUnit I. Descriptive statistics -- Introduction : what is statistics all about? -- Using polystat to do statistical analysis -- Presentation of data -- Summarizing data and using descriptive statistics -- Unit II. Basic probability and probability distributions -- Basic probability : theory and applications -- Sampling and the normal distribution -- The central limit theorem -- Unit III. Hypothesis testing -- Introduction to inferential statistics -- Estimating means, proportions, and sample size with confidence -- Validating a hypothesis about a single population mean using a sample -- Validating hypotheses between two population means -- Validating hypotheses about a single population proportion -- Validating hypotheses about two population proportions -- Unit IV. Measures of association -- Comparing more than two population means with anova -- Comparing more than two population proportions using the chi-square test -- Determining relationships for two variables using  correlation -- Measuring relationships with simple regression analysis -- Measuring multivariate relationships with regression analysis -- Planning statistical research. 0aSocial sciences - Statistical methods. 0aPolitical statistics.1 aNufrio, Philip M.41uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004023626.html