Statistics for criminology and criminal justice
By: Ronet Bachman, Raymond Paternoster.
Contributors: Paternoster, Raymond.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill; McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9780073129242
Subjects: Criminal statistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The purpose of statistics in the criminological sciences; title: Levels of measurement and aggregation; title: Understanding data distributions; title: Measures of central tendency; title: Measures of dispersion; title: Probability theory and probability distributions; title: Point estimation and confidence intervals; title: From estimation to statistical test: hypothesis testing for one; title: Data analysis with TEO categorical variables: the chi-square test and measures of association; title: Hypothesis tests involving two population means or proportions; title: Hypothesis tests involving three or more population means: analysis of variance; title: Bivariate correlation and regression; title: Multivariate methods: partial tables and multiple regression; title: Regression analysis with a dichotomous dependent variable: logit and probit models; title: Appendix A: a Review of basic mathematical operations; title: Appendix B: Statistical tables; title: Appendix C: References.