Statistics in criminology and criminal justice : analysis and interpretation
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
xi, 423 pages : illustrations + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
9780763730710, 0763730718
1100227141
Acknowledgments
1. The logic of comparisons and analysis
2. Valiables and measurements
3. Understanding data through organization : summarizing data in tables, frequency distributions, and graphical representation
4. Measures of central tendency
5. Measures of dispersion
6. The form of a distribution
7. Introduction to bivariate descriptive statistics
8. Measures of existence and statistical significance
9. Measures of strength of a relationship
10. Measures of direction and nature of a relationship
11. Introduction to multivariate statistics
12. Multiple regression I : ordinary least squares regression
13. Multiple regression II : limited dependent variables
14. Introduction to inferential analysis
15. Hypothesis testing
16. Hypothesis tests
17. Analysis of vaiance (ANOVA)
18. Putting it all together
Index
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