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Statistics for Political Analysis: Understanding the Numbers
Theresa Marchant-Shapiro
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Description for Statistics for Political Analysis: Understanding the Numbers
Paperback. This book focuses on the statistical tools most often used by political scientists and uses political examples, cases, and data throughout to show students how to answer real questions about politics using real political data. Num Pages: 496 pages, colour illustrations, colour tables, figures. BIC Classification: JP; PBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 189 x 20. Weight in Grams: 742.
Statistics are just as vital to understanding political science as the study of institutions, but getting students to understand them when teaching a methods course can be a big challenge. Statistics for Political Analysis makes understanding the numbers easy. The only introduction to statistics book written specifically for political science undergraduates, this book explains each statistical concept in plain language—from basic univariate statistics and the basic measures of association to bivariate and multivariate regression—and uses real world political examples. Students learn the relevance of statistics to political science, how to understand and calculate statistics mathematically, and how to obtain them ... Read more
Statistics are just as vital to understanding political science as the study of institutions, but getting students to understand them when teaching a methods course can be a big challenge. Statistics for Political Analysis makes understanding the numbers easy. The only introduction to statistics book written specifically for political science undergraduates, this book explains each statistical concept in plain language—from basic univariate statistics and the basic measures of association to bivariate and multivariate regression—and uses real world political examples. Students learn the relevance of statistics to political science, how to understand and calculate statistics mathematically, and how to obtain them ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
741g
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781452258652
SKU
V9781452258652
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2
About Theresa Marchant-Shapiro
Theresa Marchant-Shapiro received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, after having received statistical training both there and at the ICPSR summer program. For her entire career she has been just as interested in teaching as she is in research. She started teaching statistics to political science undergraduates over twenty years ago and has since participated in various NSF - ... Read more
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