| Course ID: | PADP 7120. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Data Applications in Public Administration |
Course
Description: | Applications of data analysis techniques to problems in public
management and policy. Special attention is devoted to instilling
familiarity with software packages to solve public sector
problems. Topics include measures of central tendency and
dispersion, cross-tabulation, difference of means testing, and
regression analysis. |
| Oasis Title: | DATA APP PUB ADM |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in POLS 7120 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This course presents an introduction to statistical methods and data analysis in
public administration and policy. The course is intended to acquaint students with
the design, conduct, and evaluation of empirically-based research in public
administration. Through the course, the student will gain confidence in his/her use
of statistics to analyze public problems. No prior knowledge is expected. The course
will help provide the basic concepts of statistical analysis necessary to master
other courses and material in public administration and to give the students the
skills necessary to conduct research on their own. |
| Topical Outline: | I.The role of statistics in the research process in public administration
II. Data preparation and definition
III. Data modification and transformation
IV. Measurement and univariate statistics
V. Measures of central tendency and dispersion
VI. Bivariate statistical analysis
VII. Probability and statistical inference
VIII. Multivariate statistics |