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With new critical thinking questions, data-based exercises, tips on data presentation, and suggested reading lists, this workbook gets students comfortable applying each technique. Helpful software primers on SPSS and Excel provide essential skills. The workbook's CD includes seven data sets that cover a range of measures and applications (available in SPSS, SAS, SYSTAT, Stata, and Excel).
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This companion workbook to Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts contains questions and answers about concepts, critical thinking questions, application and data-based exercises, tips on data presentation, and suggested reading lists, as well as software primers and a CD with seven data sets in SPSS, SAS, SYSTAT, and STATA and Excel formats that cover a range of measures and applications, from citizen and employee survey data and community indicators, to time series data of juvenile crimes, to regression analysis of pollution. Each chapter corresponds to those in the main text, and included are chapters that extend material, such as the user's guide to essential statistics in Excel (new to this edition), how to use SPSS, and documentation for the datasets on the CD. CQ Press is an imprint of SAGE Publications. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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