Summary: This book and its supporting materials are ideally
suited for graduate students in professional degree programs in
public policy, education, social work, criminology, urban
planning, and related schools as well as advanced undergraduates
in these fields. The book s explanations, descriptions,
illustrations, and step-by-step exercises create the skills and
knowledge required of a policy analyst, advisor, consultant or
the elected or appointed public official or nonprofit officer
who ...show more wants to be better able to interpret and
evaluate others applied social research. Its data sets,
solutions sets, instructors manual, lecture slides, and student
workbook provide instructors with a complete and fully
integrated instructional package. The book helps readers
understand how to collect, manage, evaluate, and analyze data.
It also provides guidelines for the presentation of analysis,
especially for nonacademic audiences without training in
statistical analysis. These guidelines help ensure that stat