Essentials of Political Analysis 5th Edition Pollock III Test Bank

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  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1506305830
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506305837
  • Author: Philip H. Pollock III

This Fifth Edition of The Essentials of Political Analysis equips students with the skills to conduct political analysis and critically assess statistical research. Bestselling author Philip H. Pollock III builds students’ analytic abilities and develops their statistical reasoning with new data, fresh exercises, and engaging examples. This accessible introduction to the essential elements of political analysis walks students through the basics―measuring concepts, describing variables, formulating and testing hypotheses, controlling for alternative explanations, and interpreting graphic displays, and nearly 50 practical exercises motivate them to use their new skills with confidence.

Table contents:

Tables and Figures xi
Preface xv
Introduction 1
What This Book Is (and Is Not) About 2
Facts and Values in Perspective 3
The Scientific Approach 3
Conclusion 5
1. The Measurement of Concepts 6
Questions 6
Stage 1 How to Define a Concept 8
Clarifying a Concept 8
A Template for Writing a Conceptual Definition 10
Stage 2 Operational Definitions 12
Validity and Reliability 13
Approaches to Evaluating Accuracy 15
Stage 3 Variables 18
Levels of Measurement 19
Clearing up Confusion over Levels of Measurement 22
Summary 23
Key Terms 23
Exercises 23
2. Explanations and Hypotheses 26
Questions 26
Stage 1 From Variable to Explanation 28
Stage 2 From Explanation to Hypothesis 31
Stage 3 From Hypothesis to Test 35
The True Experiment 36
The Natural Experiment 39
The Controlled Comparison 40
Summary 44
Key Terms 45
Exercises 45
3. Describing Variables and Making Comparisons 48
Questions 48
Describing Variables 49
Summary Guidelines of Description 56
Making Comparisons 58
Cross-tabulations 58
Mean Comparisons 62
Graphing Relationships and Describing Patterns 63
Summary 69
Key Terms 70
Exercises 71
4. The “How Else?” Question: Making Controlled Comparisons 73
Questions 73
Three Scenarios: X[right arrow]Y, Controlling for Z 75
Spurious Relationships 75
Enhancement Relationships 77
Specification Relationships 78
Making Controlled Comparisons 82
Cross-tabulation Analysis 82
The Rule of Direction for Nominal Variables 85
Mean Comparison Analysis 87
Summary 92
Key Terms 93
Exercises 93
5. Sampling and Inference 95
Questions 95
Random Sampling 96
How Sample Size Affects Random Sampling Error 100
Variation Revisited: The Standard Deviation 101
The Normal Distribution 104
How the Standard Deviation Affects Random Sampling Error 106
Inference Using the Normal Distribution 107
Inference Using the Student’s t-Distribution 111
What About Sample Proportions? 115
Summary 117
Key Terms 119
Exercises 119
6. Tests of Significance and Measures of Association 121
Questions 121
Statistical Significance 122
Comparing Two Sample Means 124
Comparing Two Sample Proportions 128
The Chi-square Test of Significance 130
Measures of Association 135
The PRE Approach 136
Lambda Revisited: The Problem and a Remedy 139
Summary 141
Key Terms 142
Exercises 142
7. Correlation and Regression 144
Questions 144
Correlation 145
Bi-Variate Regression 147
R-Square 153
Dummy Variable Regression 155
Multiple Regression 158
Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression 160
A Problem to Look Out For: Multicollinearity 163
Summary 165
Key Terms 165
Exercises 166
8. Thinking Empirically, Thinking Probabilistically 169
Thinking Empirically 170
Thinking Probabilistically 171
Notes 173
Index 181

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