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Textbook & Additional Readings

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BIB ADDITIONAL READINGS 

Andranovich G., Riposa G., 1993. Doing urban research. Sage.
Babbie, E & Halley, F. (1998). Adventures in Social Research: Data Analysis Using SPSS for W95, Pine Forge Press
Bingham R. D., Ethridge M. eds. (1982). Reaching Decisions in Public Policy and Administration. Longman.
Clemen R. T. (1991). Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis. Boston: PWS Kent Publishing Company.
Creswell J., 1994. Research Design: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Sage.
Finsterbusch K., Bender Motz A. (1980). Social Research for Policy Decisions. Belmont: Wadsworth.
Freedman D., Pisani R., and Purves R., Statistics, 2nd edition, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, NY (1991)
Goldenberg S. (1992). Thinking Methodologically. Harper Collins Publishers.
Gonick L. and Smith W., The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, HarperPerennial, New York, NY (1993)
Hoover K. R. (1992). The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking. NY: St. Martin.
Inbar M. (1979). Routine Decision Making: The Future of Bureaucracy. Sage.
Knoke, David & George W. Bohrnstedt, 1994. Statistics for Social Data Analysis. Itasca, Illinois: F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc.
Kanji G., 1993. 100 statistical tests. Sage.
Matlack W. F. (1994). Statistics for Public Managers. F. E. Peacock Publishers, Inc.
Meier K. J., Brudney J. L. (1993). Applied Statistics for Public Administration, 3d Edition. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
Moore D. and McCabe G., Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 2nd edition, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, NY (1993)
Nachmias D. (1980). The Practice of Policy Evaluation. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Rea L., Parker R. (1992). Designing and conducting survey research: A comprehensive guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
R. Mark Sirkin (1995). Statistics for the Social Sciences. Sage.
Herman W. Smith (1991). Strategies of Social Research. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Vogt W. P. (1993). Dictionary of statistics and methodology, a nontechnical guide for the social sciences. Sage.
Wonnacott, TH & Wonnacott, RJ (1990). Introductory Statistics, 5th edition , Wiley. Wiley stats books



Research Methods Resources

Tools WEB tools
Electronic Mail with ELM WordPerfect Quattro-Pro
SPSS SPSS beginning exercises Getting started with Excel
MathCAD simulations MathCAD
Robin Lock's Data Surfing on the World Wide Web
UCLA Statistics, Case studies Data sets
DASL, Data & Story Library, illustrating use of basic statistical techniques
The CHANCE Database
Stat 101 Modules, West Viriginia (up to Probability).
Statistics practice problems
Something special for the eyes: Online Museums & Exhibitions, including Mathematical Museum & Exhibitions from the American Mathematical Society
STATS, statistical assessment service, looks at how scientific and quantitative information/research are presented by the media.

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