PADM 5010 Statistical Methods for Public Administration (3)

Also offered as ISDS 5010 . Prereq.: college algebra. Open only to students in the MPA program. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Descriptive measures for populations and samples; basic probability theory; distributions of discrete and continuous random variables; hypothesis testing and estimation for means, variances, and proportions; measures of association; regression analysis; index numbers; applications in public administration.