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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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