| | Statistics for Public Administration: Practical Uses for Better Decision Making | | | Maureen BernerAs a public administrator‚ you need to be able to analyze and evaluate policies‚ and understand analysis and evaluations done by others. This means having a solid working knowledge of how to apply statistics to the types of data used in local government so that you make good decisions.Statistics for Public Administration: Practical Uses for Better Decision Making‚ a completely updated
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stats in their research. Official statistics are a source of secondary data. They are produced by the government. They are quantative data. There are two types of Official Statistics. Hard statistics which are objective and can’t be manipulated; statistics on births and marriages are hard statistics. Soft statistics which are more subjective are easy to manipulate; statistics on crime‚ poverty and unemployment are soft statistics. Positivists favour Official Statistics as they take a scientific approach
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Central Measures Measures of central tendencies are nothing but the measures to describe the "central" values of a collected sample. For an ungrouped set of data these measures are: the mean‚ the median‚ and the mode. The Mean The arithmetic mean‚ or the simple mean‚ is computed by summing all numbers in an array of numbers (xi) and then dividing by the number of observations (N) in the array. ; the sum is over all i’s. The mean uses all of the observations‚ and each observation affects the
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1. I want to study the relationship between GDP per capita and the adolescent fertility rate. To do this‚ I have made GDP per capita (constant 2000 US$) my main independent variable and adolescent fertility rate (births per 1000 women ages 15-19) my dependent variable. I also plan to analyze data from other variables such as life expectancy‚ public spending on education‚ and the total fertility rate‚ in order to draw conclusions and deduce if there is a statistically significant relationship among
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Question 1 How can graphics and/or statistics be used to misrepresent data? Where have you seen this done? Answer: It is a well known fact that statistics can be misleading. They are often used to prove a point and an easily be twisted in favor of that point. Statistics‚ graphics and database are used in medical field to approve‚ prove or disapprove theories‚ analysis and interpretation of ailments‚ medications and its impact and treatment and its effectiveness. As noted by Nursing Research (2011)/
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EMGT 571 STATISTICS I TAKE HOME FINAL EXAM Problems – Answer the following problems…BE SURE TO SHOW ALL WORK!!!. You can use excel‚ SPSS or word as the medium for generating solutions to the problems. I recommend you use excel and SPSS 1. The time at which the mailman delivers the mail follows a normal distribution with a mean of 2:00PM and a standard deviation of 15 minutes (20 pts) a) What is the probability that the mail will arrive before 1:50PM? b) What is the probability
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In recent years sports statistics have become more valued by professional teams‚ although this change has been a slow process. Hall of Fame baseball general manager Branch Rickey hired the first full time statistician in 1947‚ and made numerous statistical formulas to enhance his performance. Yet despite his decades of success‚ most sports owners did not value advancing statistical methods of evaluating players. For instance‚ noted statistician Bill James did his research as an outsider to baseball
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Descriptive statistics information Descriptive statistics organize‚ summarize‚ and communicate a group of numerical observations and describe large amounts of data in a single number or in just a few numbers Inferential statistics Use samples to draw conclusions about a population Inferential statistical use sample data to make general estimates about the larger population‚ and infer or make an intelligence guess about‚ the population Sample: a set of observations drawn from the population
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Chapter 1: Assignment Solutions (Do not share with anybody outside your class) 2. a. The ten elements are the ten cars b. 5 variables: Size‚ Cylinders‚ City MPG‚ Highway MPG‚ and Fuel c. Categorical variables: Size and Fuel Quantitative variables: Cylinders‚ City MPG‚ and Highway MPG d. Variable Measurement Scale Size Ordinal Cylinders Ratio City MPG Ratio Highway MPG Ratio Fuel Nominal 5. a. Average endowment = 74.6/7 = $10.657 billion b. Average
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Outline and assess the usefulness of official statistics in measuring crime (50 marks) Crime is behaviour that breaks the law. Crime itself is deviant. Deviance refers to the behaviour that most people see as differing from acceptable social norms or standards of society – as abnormal or immoral. Official statistics is crime reported by the public and recorded by the police (or detected by the police themselves). Records are published every three months. The process involves the witness discovering
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