Data Analysis & Presentation

Prerequisite: POLI 501 This course is designed to help student understand statistics and develop practical skills for collecting, analyzing and presenting quantitative data in a public administration/policy setting. This course will expand the student's ability to reason quantitatively while exploring some of the critical statistical techniques that are the cornerstones of empirical analysis conducted by public administrators. Topics include descriptive statistics, analyzing crosstabs, making inferences from sample means, Chi-square, measures of association, linear regression analysis and graphic presentation of data. Students will also acquire a working knowledge of how to input and analyze data with SPSS software. Offered fall semester.