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Analytical Techniques for Public Administration

PA 3311 — Texas State University Dr. W. Scott Langford, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

This is the online companion to the PA 3311 textbook.

Chapters

Introduction to Analytical Foundations
Developing Research Questions
Describing Data
Probability and Uncertainty
Statistical Inference
Independent t-Tests
Paired t-Tests
Regression Analysis
Putting It All Together: The Final Project

Datasets

We use one Texas dataset across the whole course — the Texas City Sales Panel (2013–2024): 1,180 cities, 13,930 city-years of municipal finance data, with a debt cross-section supplement, full codebook, and a one-page overview.

➡️ See all datasets and downloads

How to Use This Site

Read the chapters using the links above
Download the datasets and open them in Excel
Complete the exercises at the end of each chapter using the Data Analysis ToolPak
For the full typeset PDF with figures, see the Overleaf source

Note: Artificial intelligence was used to develop this text.