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100 1 _aMARCHANT-SHAPIRO, Theresa.
245 1 0 _aStatistics for Political Analysis :
300 _axvii, 475 pages :
_bcolor illustrations ;
500 _aIncludes index
505 0 _aThe political use of numbers: lies and statistics -- Measurement: counting the Biggel-Balls -- Measures of central tendency: that's some mean baseball -- Measures of dispersion: missing the mark -- Continuous probability: so what's normal anyway? -- Means testing: sampling a population -- Hypothesis testing: examining relationships -- Describing the pattern: what do you see? -- Chi-square and Cramer's V: what do you expect? -- Measures of association: making connections -- Multivariate relationships: taking control -- Bivariate regression: putting your ducks in a line -- Multiple regression: the final frontier -- Understanding the numbers: knowing what counts
650 0 _aStatistics
650 0 _aPolitical statistics
856 4 2 _uhttp://college.cqpress.com/Sites/Default.aspx?alias=college.cqpress.com/sites/statspa
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