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Statistics in Criminal Justice (2nd Edition)

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ISBN-10: 0387341129

ISBN-13: 9780387341125

Edition: 3rd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: David Weisburd, Chester Britt

List price: $109.00
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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 chapter helps to prepare the student for the chapters that follow. It also means that the level of sophistication of the text increases as the text progresses. Throughout the text there is an emphasis on comprehension and interpretation, rather than computation. However, it takes a serious approach to statistics, which is relevant to the real world of research in crime and justice. This approach…    
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Book details

List price: $109.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 4/5/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 674
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.948
Language: English

Sally S. Simpson (Ph.D. University of Massachusetts/Amherst) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland/College Park. Ongoing research projects include a factorial survey of environmental professionals to assess regulatory attitudes toward and strategies for business, a meta-analysis of corporate crime intervention and control strategies for the Campbell Consortium Crime and Justice Group (CCJG), and the WEV study (a multi-city retrospective study of incarcerated women's experience of violence). Professor Simpson is past President of the White-Collar Crime Research Consortium and current Chair of the Crime, Law, and Deviance…    

Preface
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
Defining Risks of Error: From Probabilities to a Sampling Distribution
Steps in a Statistical Test: Using the Binomial Distribution to Make Decisions about Hypotheses
Chi Square: A commonly Used Test for Nominal-Level Measures
The Normal Distribution and its Application to Statistical Tests of Significance
Comparing Means and Proportions in Two Samples
Comparing Means among More than Two Samples: Analysis of Variance
Nominal and Ordinal Measures of Association
Measuring Association for Interval Level Data: Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
An Introduction to Bivariate Regression
Multivariate Regression
An Introduction to Logistic Regression
Special Topics: Confidence Intervals
Special Topics: Statistical Power