Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
by Walker, Jeffery T.Edition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-08-15
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett Learning
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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 | |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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