Statistics in criminology and criminal justice
By: by Jeffery T. Walker and Sean Maddan.
Contributors: Maddan, Sean.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763755485
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- Statistical methods; Criminal statistics -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The logic of comparisons and analysis; title: Variables and measurement; title: Understanding data through organization: summarizing data in tables, frequency distributions, and graphical representation; title: Measures of central tendency; title: Measures of dispersion; title: The form of a distribution; title: Introduction to bivariate descriptive statistics; title: Measures of existence and statistical significance; title: Measures of strength of a relationship; title: Measures of direction and nature of a relationship; title: Introduction to multivariate statistics; title: Multiple regression 1: ordinary least squares regression; title: Multiple regression 2: limited dependent variables; title: Factor analysis, path analysis, and structural equation modeling; title: Introduction to inferential analysis; title: Hypothesis testing; title: Hypothesis tests; title: Analysis of variance (ANOVA); title: Putting it all together; title: Appendix A Math review and practice test; title: Appendix B Distribution of f; p=.05; title: Appendix C.