Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts

by Evan M. Berman, Xiaohu Wang

Known for its brevity and student-friendly approach, Essential Statistics for Public Managers and Policy Analysts remains one of the most popular introductory books on statistics for public policy and public administration students, using carefully selected examples tailored specifically for them. The Fourth Edition continues to offer a conceptual understanding of statistics that can be applied readily to the real-life challenges of public administrators and policy analysts. The book provides examples from the areas of human resources management, organizational behavior, budgeting, and public policy to illustrate how public administrators interact with and analyze data.

The text may be paired with the workbook Exercising Essential Statistics, Fourth Edition to help students apply each statistical technique introduced in the text. Use bundle 978-1-5063-7366-9.

366 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 17, 2011

About the author

Evan Michael Berman

Reviews

[James Keogh · Rating 5 out of 5]

While Statistics is a hard subject, Berman breaks the information down into easy to understand concepts. I highly recommend the accompanying workbook to work through the solutions.

[Sean Doerr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty straight forward in its teaching and understanding. Served its purpose for quantitative methods

[Mills College Library]

519.5 B5162e 2012

[Sandee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this okay and helped to convey basic principals.