Applied Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administration

PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS. 1. Statistics and Public and Nonprofit Administration. 2. Measurement. 3. Research Design. PART II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. 4. Frequency Distributions. 5. Measures of Central Tendency. 6. Measures of Dispersion. PART III: PROBABILITY. 7. The Normal Probability Distribution. 8. The Binomial Probability Distribution. 9. Some Special Probability Distributions. PART IV: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS. 10. Introduction to Inference. 11. Hypothesis Testing. 12. Estimating Population Proportions. 13. Testing the Difference between Two Groups. PART V: ANALYSIS OF NOMINAL AND ORDINAL DATA. 14. Construction and Analysis of Contingency Tables. 15. Aids for the Interpretation of Contingency Tables. 16. Statistical Control Table Analysis. PART VI: REGRESSION ANALYSIS. 17. Introduction to Regression Analysis. 18. The Assumptions of Linear Regression. 19. Time Series Analysis. 20. Multiple Regression. 21. Regression Output and Data Management.

Kenneth J. Meier is the Charles H. Gregory Chair in Liberal Arts and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He is also Professor of Public Management in the Cardiff School of Business, Cardiff University (Wales). He is a former editor of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (1994 1997), a former associate editor of THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS (1991 1994), and the JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY (2000 2009). He served as the president of the Southwest Political Science Association; the American Political Science Associations sections on State Politics and Policy, Public Policy, and Public Administration; the Public Management Research Association; and the Midwest Political Science Association. In 2006, he received the John Gaus Award for career contributions to public administration scholarship; and in 2010, the C. Dwight Waldo Award from the American Society for Public Administration. He currently lives with the love of his life, Diane Jones Meier, in Bryan, Texas, and spends his free time comparing the merits of California zinfandels with Australian Shirazes. Jeffrey L. Brudney is the Albert A. Levin Chair of Urban Studies and Public Service at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs. According to a study published in 2005 in the JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION EDUCATION, Dr. Brudney ranks tenth in research productivity among scholars worldwide based on article publication in all referred journals affiliated with the American Society for Public Administration. The Urban Institute calls him the foremost research expert on volunteer management programs and community volunteer centers in the United States." Dr. Brudney has received several international honors and awards, including the annual Herbert Kaufman Award three times from the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for excellence in research. In 2008, he received the Academy