Statistics For Public Policy
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Author | : Brian P. Macfie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 555 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1317363531 |
This practical text provides students with the statistical tools needed to analyze data, and shows how statistics can be used as a tool in making informed, intelligent policy decisions. The authors' approach helps students learn what statistical measures mean and focus on interpreting results, as opposed to memorizing and applying dozens of statistical formulae. The book includes more than 500 end-of-chapter problems, solvable with the easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet application developed by the authors. This template allows students to enter numbers into the appropriate sheet, sit back, and analyze the data. This comprehensive, hands-on textbook requires only a background in high school algebra and has been thoroughly classroom-tested in both undergraduate and graduate level courses. No prior expertise with Excel is required. A disk with the Excel template and the data sets is included with the book, and solutions to the end-of-chapter problems will be provided on the M.E. Sharpe website.
Author | : Maureen Berner |
Publisher | : International City/County Management Association(ICMA) |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780873267717 |
Author | : Sally C. Morton |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000-05-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780387987774 |
A critical yet constructive description of the rich analytical techniques and substantive applications that typify how statistical thinking has been applied at the RAND Corporation over the past two decades. Case studies of public policy problems are useful for teaching because they are familiar: almost everyone knows something abut health insurance, global warming, and capital punishment, to name but a few of the applications covered in this casebook. Each case study has a common format that describes the policy questions, the statistical questions, and the successful and the unsuccessful analytic strategies. Readers should be familiar with basic statistical concepts including sampling and regression. While designed for statistics courses in areas ranging from economics to health policy to the law at both the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, empirical researchers and policy-makers will also find this casebook informative.
Author | : Ken Steif |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2021-08-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1000401618 |
Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R. Each of the eight chapters provides a detailed case study, showing readers: how to develop exploratory indicators; understand ‘spatial process’ and develop spatial analytics; how to develop ‘useful’ predictive analytics; how to convey these outputs to non-technical decision-makers through the medium of data visualization; and why, ultimately, data science and ‘Planning’ are one and the same. A graduate-level introduction to data science, this book will appeal to researchers and data scientists at the intersection of data analytics and public policy, as well as readers who wish to understand how algorithms will affect the future of government.
Author | : Edward R. Tufte |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Introduction to data analysis; Predictions and projections: some issues of research design; Two-variable linear regression; Multiple regression.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Chen |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3030713520 |
This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in order to further their application in the public sector. An expansion of the quantitative economics frameworks presented in policy and business schools, this book emphasizes the process of asking relevant questions to inform public policy. Its techniques and approaches emphasize data-driven practices, beginning with the basic programming paradigms that occupy the majority of an analyst’s time and advancing to the practical applications of statistical learning and machine learning. The text considers two divergent, competing perspectives to support its applications, incorporating techniques from both causal inference and prediction. Additionally, the book includes open-sourced data as well as live code, written in R and presented in notebook form, which readers can use and modify to practice working with data.
Author | : Masami Nishishiba |
Publisher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2013-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1483301419 |
Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, core text that thoroughly prepares readers to apply research methods and data analysis to the professional environments of public and non-profit administration. The authors expertly incorporate original case examples to demonstrate concepts using “real actors,” facing specific scenarios, in which research methods must be applied. This unique approach—presented in language accessible to both students new to research as well as current practitioners—guides the reader in fully understanding the research options detailed throughout the text.
Author | : Ethan Bueno de Mesquita |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0691168741 |
The ideal introductory textbook to the politics of the policymaking process This textbook uses modern political economy to introduce students of political science, government, economics, and public policy to the politics of the policymaking process. The book's distinct political economy approach has two virtues. By developing general principles for thinking about policymaking, it can be applied across a range of issue areas. It also unifies the policy curriculum, offering coherence to standard methods for teaching economics and statistics, and drawing connections between fields. The book begins by exploring the normative foundations of policymaking—political theory, social choice theory, and the Paretian and utilitarian underpinnings of policy analysis. It then introduces game theoretic models of social dilemmas—externalities, coordination problems, and commitment problems—that create opportunities for policy to improve social welfare. Finally, it shows how the political process creates technological and incentive constraints on government that shape policy outcomes. Throughout, concepts and models are illustrated and reinforced with discussions of empirical evidence and case studies. This textbook is essential for all students of public policy and for anyone interested in the most current methods influencing policymaking today. Comprehensive approach to politics and policy suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students Models unify policy curriculum through methodological coherence Exercises at the end of every chapter Self-contained appendices cover necessary game theory Extensive discussion of cases and applications
Author | : Gábor Békés |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 741 |
Release | : 2021-05-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108483011 |
A comprehensive textbook on data analysis for business, applied economics and public policy that uses case studies with real-world data.
Author | : Michael Moran |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 997 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199548455 |
This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This work explores the business end of politics, where theory meets practice in the pursuit of public good.