Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

by Walker, Jeffery T.

• ISBN13: 9780763755485
• ISBN10: 0763755486
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Thoroughly updated and revised, the Third Edition of Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Analysis and Interpretation 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.

Table of Contents

The Logic of Comparisons and Analysis

Variables and Measurement

Understanding Data Through Organization

Measures of Central Tendency

Measures of Dispersion

The Form of a Distribution

Introduction to Bivariate Descriptive Statistics

Measures af Existence and Statistical Significance

Measures of Strength of a Relationship

Measures of Direction and Nature of a Relationship

Introduction to Multivariate Statistics

Multiple Regression I: Ordinary Least Squares Regression

Multiple Regression II: Limited Dependent Variables

Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling

Introduction to Inferential Analysis

Hypothesis Testing

Hypothesis Tests

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Putting It All Together

Math Review and Practice Test

Statistical Tables

The Greek Alphabet

Variables in Data Sets

Index

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