Quantitative Methods for Public Policy And Administration

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce the student to the concepts and applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. The focus will be on developing a conceptual understanding of statistics and data analysis skills, and their application to problems encountered by those in the public administration, management, policy analysis, public health, and non-profit fields. In this course will cover topics including principle of measurement, measurement of central tendency and dispersion, probability and distribution, correlation regression, hypothesis testing, t-test, analysis of variance, and chi-square. You will learn and use a computer program (Excel Data Analysis Tool Pak) to help you understand and perform statistical analysis.