PPA 415 – Statistical Methods in Public Administration

Fall 2008

Syllabus (Updated September 2, 2008)

Lectures

Lecture 1 – Research Design.

Lecture 1b - Exploring Evidence for Making Decisions.

Lecture 1c - Research Design Summary.

Excel Example - Healey 2.12

Lecture 2 – Counting and Charting Responses.

Lecture 3 – Measures of Central Tendency.

Lecture 4 – Measures of Dispersion.

Lecture 5 – Normal Curve, Sampling, and Estimation.

Lecture 6 – Hypothesis Testing – One and Two Sample Tests.

Lecture 7 - Hypothesis Testing – One-way Analysis of Variance.

Lecture 8 - Hypothesis Testing – Chi-Square.

PPA 415 Statistics Flowchart

Lecture 9 – Bivariate Association.

Lecture 10 – Linear Regression.

Assignments

PPA 415 Baseline Assessment

Research Design Outline

Exercise #1.

Exercise #1 Answers.

Exercise #2.

Exercise #2 Answers.

Exercise #3.

Exercise #3 Answers.

Exercise #4.

Exercise #4 Answers.

Exercise #5.

Exercise #5 Answers.

Exercise #6.

Exercise #6 Answers.

Exercise #7.

Exercise #7 Answers.

Exercise #8.

Exercise #8 Answers.

Data Sets

Leadership Surveys and Data Sets.

(Material available in WebCT).

Presidential Disaster Decisions, 1953-2003 (Random Sample).

Codebook

Data Set

IAEM-NEMA Survey, 2006.

Survey

Data Set (Local Questions)

Data Set (Federal Questions)

The Characteristics of the CSUB Graduate.

Policy Delphi Second Round Questionnaire

Survey Instrument.

Data Set.

Examinations

Midterm.

Final.

Other Information

Index of Qualitative Variation Calculator (Microsoft Excel)

Measures of Association Calculator (Microsoft Excel)

APA Paper Templates: 

·         For Microsoft Word 

To download, click on the ‘Research Paper Template in APA (5^th ed.) Format’.

·         For Corel WordPerfect

To download, click on the ‘APA Report’ link.

·         Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format (Updated to 5th Edition)

·         American Psychological Association Documentation (University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Lab).