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Author Miethe, Terance D.

Title Simple statistics : applications in criminology and criminal justice / Terance D. Miethe.

Imprint Los Angeles : Roxbury Pub. Co., 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  519.5024364 M586s 2006    ---  Available
Description xi, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-316) and index.
Contents Introduction to statistical thinking -- Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) -- Issues in data preparation -- Displaying data in tables and graphic form -- Modes, medians, means, and more -- Measures of variation and dispersion -- The normal curve and sampling distributions -- Parameter estimation and confidence intervals -- Introduction to hypothesis testing -- Hypothesis testing for means and proportions -- Statistical association in contingency tables -- The analysis of variance (ANOVA) -- Correlation and regression -- Introduction to multivariate analysis.
Subject Criminology -- Research -- Methodology.
Criminal statistics -- Methodology.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Research -- Methodology.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Statistical methods.
ISBN 1933220066 (alk. paper)
Standard No. 9781933220066

 
    
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