Brian Stipak
Biographic Data
| ID | 299437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Stipak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Stipak |
| SIGNATURE | STIPAK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Alternatives To Population-Based Crime Rates
This paper examines several alternatives to standard, population-based crime rates. These alternatives include rates standardized according to a variable other than population, and rates calculated by statistically standardizing for a number of variables simultaneously. Augmenting traditional crime rates with alternative types of rates can provide more information about the prevalence of crime, can help avoid the limitations of traditional rates,…
Teaching public administators about computers
Public administration curricula typically offer only very limited exposure to computers, despite the growing importance of computers in public management. This paper examines an approach to teaching computer management in a masters of public administration program, and relates that approach to the broader question of what public administrators need to know about computers. The approach involves instruction in computer literacy, computer applicati…
Towards More Thoughtful and Responsible Use of Public Opinion Data by Local Administrators
Local administrators need to understand the potential and the problems of using citizen opinion surveys. This paper examines the public opinion monitoring process, with the purpose of increasing administrators’ ability to use public opinion data thoughtfully and responsibly. Topics examined include the objectives of public opinion monitoring, the lessons derived from public opinion research, and practical guidelines for measurement and analysis. …
Interpreting Subjective Data for Program Evaluation
This paper examines how to interpret subjective data from citizen and client surveys for purposes of evaluating governmental programs. Six alternative models of the subjective response process are identified, and the implications of the different models are considered. Finally, different strategies for the statistical analysis of subjective data are discussed and illustrated
Statistical Procedures for Analyzing Factors Affecting Judicial Sentences Using Simultaneously Derived Crime Seriousness and Sentence Severity Scales
A variety of characteristics of the defendant, the case, and the court potentially could affect judicial sentences. Building on a recently published method for scaling the seriousness of the crimes and the severity of sentences, this paper describes procedures for investigating factors affecting sentence severity. An empirical example illustrates the procedures, as well as the problems of interpretation and analysis that arise in statistical stud…
Effect of neighborhood racial and socioeconomic composition on urban residents' evaluations of their neighborhoods
Statistical Inference in Contextual Analysis
Political science research in a number of areas is concerned with the effects of contextual explanatory variables. Unfortunately, most past contextual research is seriously flawed by problems of statistical inference that can produce false and misleading results. This paper attempts to equip contextual researchers with a necessary understanding of the main statistical issues involved in contextual analysis. After outlining the basic problems of s…
Simultaneous Scaling of Offense Seriousness and Sentence Severity Through Canonical Correlation Analysis
This article describes and illustrates a new, easily applied method of scaling the severity of different types of criminal sentences and the seriousness of different types of crimes. In contrast to past approaches, this method is based on actual judicial performance, not on opinions or subjective scaling procedures. Using this approach, the effects on sentencing of variables other than type of crime can be examined
Analysis of policy issues concerning social integration
Local Governments' Use of Citizen Surveys
Sample surveys of citizens are increasingly advocated as an important data-gathering technique for local public offlicials. Two articles describing the value of surveys for public managers appeared in 1979 and 1980 issues of the Public Administration Review.' Both the 1980 annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration and the 1980 annual conference of the American Society for Public Opinion Reseach featured panel sessions on…
Estimating Interval Scale Values for Survey Item Response Categories
Analysts of social science data often need the flexibility and power of intervallevel statistics, even though strictly interval measurement has not been achieved. In such cases, analysts should attempt to assign category values that minimize distortion of the underlying variables. This paper describes a number of methods for category value estimation. The methods include estimation from the observed frequencies based on an assumption about the un…
Citizen Satisfaction with Urban Services: Potential Misuse as a Performance Indicator
Sample surveys of citizens provide a potentially important method of collecting data for local policy analysis. Several Urban Institute publications have recommended that local governments annually conduct citizen surveys to aid in evaluating city services.' Local officials will probably collect information on citizen satisfaction with city services as part of such surveys. A danger arises that policy makers may misinterpret such information, esp…
Warning against Interpreting Subjective Indicators
Are there sensible ways to analyze and use subjective indicators of urban service quality
Attitudes and Belief Systems Concerning Urban Services
Attitudes toward urban services cluster in ways indicating the widespread presence of a variety of organizing abstractions in mass political belief systems. Nonetheless, since the perceptual basis of these attitudes is weak, they are not the result of sophisticated cognitive processes of attitude formation. The findings do not show that attitudes toward urban services differ dramatically, either in overall constraint or in degree of clustering, f…
An analysis of the 1968 rapid transit vote in Los Angeles
Attitudes and Belief Systems Concerning Urban Services
Attitudes toward urban services cluster in ways indicating the widespread presence of a variety of organizing abstractions in mass political belief systems. Nonetheless, since the perceptual basis of these attitudes is weak, they are not the result of sophisticated cognitive processes of attitude formation. The findings do not show that attitudes toward urban services differ dramatically, either in overall constraint or in degree of clustering, f…
Statistical Inference in Contextual Analysis
Political science research in a number of areas is concerned with the effects of contextual explanatory variables. Unfortunately, most past contextual research is seriously flawed by problems of statistical inference that can produce false and misleading results. This paper attempts to equip contextual researchers with a necessary understanding of the main statistical issues involved in contextual analysis. After outlining the basic problems of s…
Effect of neighborhood racial and socioeconomic composition on urban residents' evaluations of their neighborhoods
Are there sensible ways to analyze and use subjective indicators of urban service quality
Estimating Interval Scale Values for Survey Item Response Categories
Analysts of social science data often need the flexibility and power of intervallevel statistics, even though strictly interval measurement has not been achieved. In such cases, analysts should attempt to assign category values that minimize distortion of the underlying variables. This paper describes a number of methods for category value estimation. The methods include estimation from the observed frequencies based on an assumption about the un…
Simultaneous Scaling of Offense Seriousness and Sentence Severity Through Canonical Correlation Analysis
This article describes and illustrates a new, easily applied method of scaling the severity of different types of criminal sentences and the seriousness of different types of crimes. In contrast to past approaches, this method is based on actual judicial performance, not on opinions or subjective scaling procedures. Using this approach, the effects on sentencing of variables other than type of crime can be examined
Analysis of policy issues concerning social integration
Alternatives To Population-Based Crime Rates
This paper examines several alternatives to standard, population-based crime rates. These alternatives include rates standardized according to a variable other than population, and rates calculated by statistically standardizing for a number of variables simultaneously. Augmenting traditional crime rates with alternative types of rates can provide more information about the prevalence of crime, can help avoid the limitations of traditional rates,…
An analysis of the 1968 rapid transit vote in Los Angeles
Attitudes and Belief Systems Concerning Urban Services
Attitudes toward urban services cluster in ways indicating the widespread presence of a variety of organizing abstractions in mass political belief systems. Nonetheless, since the perceptual basis of these attitudes is weak, they are not the result of sophisticated cognitive processes of attitude formation. The findings do not show that attitudes toward urban services differ dramatically, either in overall constraint or in degree of clustering, f…
Estimating Interval Scale Values for Survey Item Response Categories
Analysts of social science data often need the flexibility and power of intervallevel statistics, even though strictly interval measurement has not been achieved. In such cases, analysts should attempt to assign category values that minimize distortion of the underlying variables. This paper describes a number of methods for category value estimation. The methods include estimation from the observed frequencies based on an assumption about the un…
Citizen Satisfaction with Urban Services: Potential Misuse as a Performance Indicator
Sample surveys of citizens provide a potentially important method of collecting data for local policy analysis. Several Urban Institute publications have recommended that local governments annually conduct citizen surveys to aid in evaluating city services.' Local officials will probably collect information on citizen satisfaction with city services as part of such surveys. A danger arises that policy makers may misinterpret such information, esp…
Warning against Interpreting Subjective Indicators
Are there sensible ways to analyze and use subjective indicators of urban service quality
Analysis of policy issues concerning social integration
Local Governments' Use of Citizen Surveys
Sample surveys of citizens are increasingly advocated as an important data-gathering technique for local public offlicials. Two articles describing the value of surveys for public managers appeared in 1979 and 1980 issues of the Public Administration Review.' Both the 1980 annual conference of the American Society for Public Administration and the 1980 annual conference of the American Society for Public Opinion Reseach featured panel sessions on…
Statistical Inference in Contextual Analysis
Political science research in a number of areas is concerned with the effects of contextual explanatory variables. Unfortunately, most past contextual research is seriously flawed by problems of statistical inference that can produce false and misleading results. This paper attempts to equip contextual researchers with a necessary understanding of the main statistical issues involved in contextual analysis. After outlining the basic problems of s…
Simultaneous Scaling of Offense Seriousness and Sentence Severity Through Canonical Correlation Analysis
This article describes and illustrates a new, easily applied method of scaling the severity of different types of criminal sentences and the seriousness of different types of crimes. In contrast to past approaches, this method is based on actual judicial performance, not on opinions or subjective scaling procedures. Using this approach, the effects on sentencing of variables other than type of crime can be examined
Towards More Thoughtful and Responsible Use of Public Opinion Data by Local Administrators
Local administrators need to understand the potential and the problems of using citizen opinion surveys. This paper examines the public opinion monitoring process, with the purpose of increasing administrators’ ability to use public opinion data thoughtfully and responsibly. Topics examined include the objectives of public opinion monitoring, the lessons derived from public opinion research, and practical guidelines for measurement and analysis. …
Interpreting Subjective Data for Program Evaluation
This paper examines how to interpret subjective data from citizen and client surveys for purposes of evaluating governmental programs. Six alternative models of the subjective response process are identified, and the implications of the different models are considered. Finally, different strategies for the statistical analysis of subjective data are discussed and illustrated
Statistical Procedures for Analyzing Factors Affecting Judicial Sentences Using Simultaneously Derived Crime Seriousness and Sentence Severity Scales
A variety of characteristics of the defendant, the case, and the court potentially could affect judicial sentences. Building on a recently published method for scaling the seriousness of the crimes and the severity of sentences, this paper describes procedures for investigating factors affecting sentence severity. An empirical example illustrates the procedures, as well as the problems of interpretation and analysis that arise in statistical stud…
Effect of neighborhood racial and socioeconomic composition on urban residents' evaluations of their neighborhoods
Teaching public administators about computers
Public administration curricula typically offer only very limited exposure to computers, despite the growing importance of computers in public management. This paper examines an approach to teaching computer management in a masters of public administration program, and relates that approach to the broader question of what public administrators need to know about computers. The approach involves instruction in computer literacy, computer applicati…
Alternatives To Population-Based Crime Rates
This paper examines several alternatives to standard, population-based crime rates. These alternatives include rates standardized according to a variable other than population, and rates calculated by statistically standardizing for a number of variables simultaneously. Augmenting traditional crime rates with alternative types of rates can provide more information about the prevalence of crime, can help avoid the limitations of traditional rates,…
Computer Science (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Statistics (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Geography (4 works)