عنوان

Statistics in criminology and criminal justice

9780763755 0763755486

29563

eng

Statistics in criminology and criminal justice

:analysis and interpretation

/ Jeffery T. Walker, Sean Maddan

3rd ed.

Sudbury, Mass.

: Jones and Bartlett Publishers,

, c2009.

xi, 498 p

. ill., maps 26 cm.

Language: انگلیسی

Print

ng

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 of 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 -- Appendix A: Math review and practice test -- Appendix B: Statistical tables -- Appendix C: The Greek alphabet -- Appendix D: Variables in data sets.

Criminal justice, Administration of- Statistical methods

Criminal statistics- Research

Walker, Jeffery T.

Maddan, Sean

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