Applied Statistics for Public Administration - Softcover

Meier, Kenneth J; Brudney, Jeffrey L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0030193788 ISBN 13: 9780030193781

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 1996

Synopsis

The Third Edition of Meier and Brudney's Applied Statistics for Public Administration provides comprehensive coverage of the major statistical and analytical tools you'll need as a public manager. The book also fully meets the NASPAA standards for methodology in masters programs in public affairs and administration. In an easy-to-read, applied format, the book focuses on practical problems in the public management arena, and its step-by-step explanations help you replace anxiety about statistics with an appreciation for powerful quantitative techniques. Using problems, exercises, and examples taken from the public administration field, you, as a public manager, will see how useful statistics can be - now and in the future.

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Review:

1. Introduction to Cognitive Psychology. 2. Cognition and the Brain: Basic Principles. 3. Perception. 4. Attention. 5. Short-Term and Working Memory. 6. Long-Term Memory: Basic Principles. 7. Everyday Memory and Memory Errors. 8. Knowledge. 9. Visual Imagery. 10. Language. 11. Problem Solving. 12. Reasoning and Decision Making.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0030193788
• ISBN 13: 9780030193781
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 487