Simple statistics
Subtitle: applications in criminology and criminal justice
By: by Terance D. Miethe.
Publisher: Roxbury Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933220066
Subjects: Criminology -- Research -- Methodology; Criminal statistics -- Methodology; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Research -- Methodology; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Statistical methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to statistical thinking; title: Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO); title: Issues in data preparation; title: Displaying data in tables and graphic form; title: Modes, medians, means, and more; title: Measures of variation and dispersion; title: The normal curve and sampling distributions; title: Parameter estimation and confidence intervals; title: Introduction to hypothesis testing; title: Hypothesis testing of means and proportions; title: Statistical association in contingency tables; title: The analysis of variance; title: Correlation and regression; title: Introduction to multivariate analysis.