Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Analysis and Interpretation

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005 - 423 lappuses
Thoroughly updated and revised, this edition provides criminal justice students with a firm knowledge base in the theory and application of statistical analyses. Students will be introduced to methods of identifying and classifying data, followed by explanations and demonstrations of statistical procedures. They will learn what statistical techniques are appropriate for particular data, why procedures give the results they do, and how to interpret the output of statistical analyses. The book features updated statistical output, clear explanations of how to perform the analyses being discussed, revised data files, additional data sets to increase students' ability to conduct research on their own, and extensive use of flowcharts and examples to maximize students' comprehension of the topic.

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Measures of Central Tendency
83
Measures of Dispersion
107
The Form of a Distribution
129
Introduction to Bivariate Descriptive Statistics
149
Measures of Existence and Statistical Significance
167
Tobit Regression
319
Known Probability of Error
364
Chisquare Test for Independence
377
Analysis of Variance ANOVA
383
Chapter Resources
392
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