书目名称 | Public Program Analysis | 副标题 | A New Categorical Da | 编辑 | Ron N. Forthofer,Robert G. Lehnen | 视频video | | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | The past two decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the demand for analyses of health and public affairs program data. Governments at the federal and state levels have stimulated, if not mandated, much of this increased de mand and spawned numerous not-for-profit and quasi-public organizations research groups, lobbying organizations, consulting firms-who actively use analytic techniques. Program analysis is a broad term that encompasses activities such as pro gram planning and prediction, program assessment, and program evaluation. Though purposes differ and techniques vary, the common denominator for all applications is the attempt to use quantitative techniques to provide compre hensive and objective analyses. Program analysis in public health and public affairs shares another common feature: In many cases the data collected for these applications are categorical in nature-that is, discrete information rep resented by categories. Whether a defendant in a criminal trial is convicted (yes, no), the number of times a person visits a community health center in a month (0,1,2,3, ... ), how a person feels about a proposed program (agree, disagree, not sure, no opinion)-thes | 出版日期 | Book 1981 | 关键词 | coding; contingency table; data analysis; evaluation; health; information; organization; public health; rese | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6683-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-6685-0 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-6683-6 | copyright | Wadsworth, Inc. 1981 |
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