Introductory Criminal Justice Statistics

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Waveland Press, Apr 24, 2008 - Mathematics - 172 pages

Introductory Criminal Justice Statistics is an essential tool for criminal justice departments and programs intent on creating strong quantitative components in their curricula. The author couples a sound pedagogical component with an applied focus, allowing students to gain an appreciation of the fundamental role that statistics play in laying the scientific groundwork of the criminal justice discipline.

The text includes basic statistical principles and practices and increasingly builds on this foundation to demonstrate the primary analytical techniques. Students apply these techniques using a hands-on method as well as SPSS. By providing a meaningful context for the use of statistical techniques in the field of criminal justice, students learn how to interpret and write up their results. In addition, multiple-choice questions and SPSS project assignments give students the opportunity to employ their statistical knowledge and understanding of statistical reasoning.

 

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics
3
Chapter 2 Displaying and Graphing Distributions
13
Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
23
Chapter 4 The Normal Curve and Standard Scores
37
Tests of Group Differences
45
Chapter 5 Introduction to Inferential Statistics
47
Chapter 6 Hypothesis Testing
59
OneSample Tests
71
OneWay Analysis of Variance ANOVA
107
Tests of Association
119
Bivariate Correlation
121
Simple Linear Regression
135
Multiple Linear Regression
147
Statistical Tables
161
Index
169
Copyright

TwoSample Tests
83

Other editions - View all

Introductory Criminal Justice Statistics and Data Analysis: Second Edition
Irina R. Soderstrom,Kristie R. Blevins
Limited preview - 2015
Introductory Criminal Justice Statistics and Data Analysis
Irina R. Soderstrom,Kristie R. Blevins
No preview available - 2015
Introductory Criminal Justice Statistics
Irina R. Soderstrom
No preview available - 2008

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Bibliographic information

TitleIntroductory Criminal Justice Statistics
AuthorIrina R. Soderstrom
PublisherWaveland Press, 2008
ISBN1478610344, 9781478610342
Length172 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Mathematics / Probability & Statistics / General
Social Science / Criminology
Social Science / Statistics
  
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