Statistics for Public Policy – A Practical Guide to Being Mostly Right (or at Least Respectably Wrong) - Jeremy G. Weber

A long-overdue guide on how to use statistics to bring clarity, not confusion, to policy work. Statistics are an essential tool for making, evaluating, and improving public policy. Statistics for Public Policy is a crash course in wielding these unruly tools to bring maximum clarity to policy work. Former White House economist Jeremy G. Weber offers an accessible voice of experience for the challenges of this work, focusing on seven core practices:Â Thinking big-picture about the role of data in... Zobrazit více