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Research methods and statistics for public and nonprofit administrators : a practical guide / Masami Nishishiba, Matthew Jones, Mariah Kraner, Portland State University.

"Research Methods and Statistics for Public and Nonprofit Administrators: A Practical Guide is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, core text that thoroughly prepares readers to apply research methods and data analysis to the professional environments of public and non-profit administration. The auth...

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Online Access: Full Text (via SAGE)
Main Author: Nishishiba, Masami (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE, [2014]
Subjects:
Public administration > Research > Methodology.
Nonprofit organizations > Management.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Section I. Research design and data collection
  • When a practitioner becomes a researcher
  • Research alignment
  • Identifying the focus of the research : research objective and research question
  • Research design
  • Sample selection
  • Data collection
  • Section II. Data analysis
  • Quantitative data preparation and descriptive statistics
  • Hypothesis testing and statistical significance : logic of inferential statistics
  • Comparing means between two groups
  • Comparing means of more than two groups : analysis of variance (ANOVA)
  • Bivariate correlation
  • Chi-square analysis
  • Regression analysis
  • Qualitative data analysis
  • Section III. Summing up : putting the pieces together
  • Writing reports
  • Using research methods for continuous improvement : program evaluation and performance measurement
  • Appendix A : Additional SPSS and Excel instructions
  • Appendix B : Emily's survey form
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • About the authors.

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