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Table of Contents

Contents.
List of Symbols.
Preface.
Part I: FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS.
1. Statistics and Public and Nonprofit Administration.
2. Measurement.
3. Research Design.
Part II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS.
4. Frequency Distributions.
5. Measures of Central Tendency.
6. Measures of Dispersion.
Part III: PROBABILITY.
7. Introduction to Probability.
8. The Normal Probability Distribution.
9. The Binomial Probability Distribution.
10. Some Special Probability Distributions.
Part IV: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS.
11. Introduction to Inference.
12. Hypothesis Testing.
13. Estimating Population Proportions.
14. Testing the Difference between Two Groups.
Part V: ANALYSIS OF NOMINAL AND ORDINAL DATA.
15. Construction and Analysis of Contingency Tables.
16. Aids for the Interpretation of Contingency Tables.
17. Statistical Control Table Analysis.
Part VI: REGRESSION ANALYSIS.
18. Introduction to Regression Analysis.
19. The Assumptions of Linear Regression.
20. Time Series Analysis.
21. Multiple Regression.
22. Interrupted Time Series: Program and Policy Analysis.
23. Regression Output and Data Management.
Part VII: SPECIAL TOPICS IN QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT.
24. Performance Measurement Techniques.
25. Decision Theory.
26. Linear Programming.
Annotated Bibliography.
Statistical Tables.
Glossary.
Answers to Odd-Numbered Computational Problems.
Index.