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This text helps readers understand how to collect, manage, evaluate, and analyze data. It also provides guidelines for the presentation of analysis, especially for nonacademic audiences without training in statistical analysis. These guidelines help ensure that statistics and graphical displays tell the story that analysts want to convey while protecting their analysis from methodological criticism. Author Robert Pearson focuses attention on the conceptual understanding of statistics, while referring (sparingly) to specific formulas when they help reveal a conceptual point about the statistics. Key Features * Combines a concern for the design, collection, measurement, and the management of data with its analysis and presentation * Provides examples and data concerning real world problems in education, crime, government performance, and other policy arenas * Clearly demonstrates the steps used to generate the appropriate statistics and graphs in Excel and SPSS and then provides exercise...