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Statistics in Criminal Justice
Statistics in Criminal Justice takes an approach that emphasizes the uses of statistics in research in crime and justice. This text is meant for students and professionals who want to gain a basic understanding of statistics in this field. The text takes a building-block approach, meaning that each...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. 2007. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Statistics as a Research Tool
- Measurement: The Basic Building Block of Research
- Representing and Displaying Data
- Describing the Typical Case: Measures of Central Tendency
- How Typical Is the Typical Case?: Measuring Dispersion
- The Logic of Statistical Inference: Making Statements About Populations from Sample Statistics
- Defining the Observed Significance Level of a Test: A Simple Example Using the Binomial Distribution
- Steps in a Statistical Test: Using the Binomial Distribution to Make Decisions About Hypotheses
- Chi-Square: A Test Commonly Used for Nominal-Level Measures
- The Normal Distribution and Its Application to Tests of Statistical Significance
- Comparing Means and Proportions in Two Samples
- Comparing Means Among More Than Two Samples: Analysis of Variance
- Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
- Measuring Association for Interval-Level Data: Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
- An Introduction to Bivariate Regression
- Multivariate Regression
- Multivariate Regression: Additional Topics
- Logistic Regression
- Multivariate Regression with Multiple Category Nominal or Ordinal Measures: Extending the Basic Logistic Regression Model
- Special Topics: Confidence Intervals
- Special Topics: Statistical Power.