Practice Exercises: Descriptive Statistics

My master’s program is in Public Administration – Non-Profit
Management. The instructions, rubric, textbook readings, presentations, and
other required documents are attached. The
name of this course is PPOL505: Applied Public Policy Research Methods: Public
Administration Praxis: Legal & Contemporary Issues (B01). Please be sure to
read all the documents in their entirety.
Research Question
Tax policy:
2.
What
is the relationship between citizen education and cigarette taxes? Or, do
states with higher levels of overall citizen education have higher or lower
cigarette taxes?

Practice Exercises: Descriptive Statistics Assignment Overview
The
first step in data analysis is the organization of the data and simple
descriptions of the data. In this module, you will learn the importance
of measures of central tendency and variability, and you will use
SPSS to compute some of these basic measures.

Overview
Each practice exercises
assignment will consist of questions related to the course material for that Module:
Week. These exercises are meant to provide you with practice and application of
the various concepts you will be studying each week. Practice will help
solidify these statistical concepts in a way that simply reading about them
cannot.

Complete the following exercises from your
Salkind text. Be sure to copy and paste any required SPSS output into a Word
document. Save all of your work as one single Word file and upload it for
grading. Show your work when required.
·
Chapter 2, “Time to Practice” questions 1, 3, and 5
·
Chapter 3, “Time to Practice” questions 7 and 9
All questions must be clearly labeled. Answers
that are not clearly labeled will not receive credit.
Note: Your assignment will be checked for
originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.
Please see attached links.

Read: Salkind: Appendix A, Chapters 2 — 3
Read: Wheelan: Chapters 2 — 3Page
Read: Wheelan: Chapters 2 — 3
Read: O’Sullivan: Chapters 2, 4Page
Read: O’Sullivan: Chapters 2, 4
Watch: Descriptive Statistics and Public PolicyPage
Watch: Descriptive Statistics and Public Policy
Watch: Core Concepts in Stats: Measures of Central Tendency — (Chapter 2, Salkind)Page
Watch: Core Concepts in Stats: Measures of Central Tendency — (Chapter 2, Salkind)
Watch: Core Concepts in Stats: Measures of Variability — (Chapter 3, Salkind)Page
Watch: Core Concepts in Stats: Measures of Variability — (Chapter 3, Salkind)

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