Statistics for Criminal Justice and Criminology in Practice and Research

Statistics in Criminal Justice and Criminology Research: An Introduction is for advanced undergraduate and graduate level students in criminology and criminal justice statistics courses. It is designed for students pursuing careers in criminology and/or criminal justice by adequately and evenly covering statistical research for both professions. The engaging writing style, real-life applications, and comprehensive format will distinguish this text from its competitors and help establish it as more than just another statistics book.ááááFitzgerald and Fitzgerald have teamed up to create a flexible and useful text that will not only meet the needs of criminal justiceiminology students but also provide motivation for students who have math anxiety yet strive to become criminal justice professionals.Features and Benefits:1)áFrequent use ofádiagrams and graphs to illustrate ideas and procedures discussed in the text.2) Attention devoted to discussing 'conceptual' formulas and what they represent about the data to helpástudents make sense of the results.3) Extensive sets of review questions and exercises at ends of chapters help students master the content presented. 4) Quotes from actual reports in 'From the Literature' boxes help connect the discussion of research methods and statistical analysis with the research process as a whole.5) 'Pause, Think and Explore' boxes follow the mathematical formulas and are intended to help students develop an understanding of how the formula works, gain confidence in working with the mathematics, and develop better insight about what the formulas are signaling about the data being analyzed. INDICE: Chapter 1. The Study of Statistics in Criminal JusticeChapter 2. Scientific Research and Statistical AnalysisChapter 3. Basic Descriptive Univariate AnalysisChapter 4. Describing Univariate DistributionsChapter 5. Distributions: Normal and OtherwiseChapter 6. An Introduction to Probability Theory and Probability DistributionsChapter 7. Univariate Inferential Statistics: Sampling Distributions and Population Parameter EstimationsChapter 8. Bivariate Hypothesis Testing With Nominal and Ordinal VariablesChapter 9. Bivariate Hypothesis Testing For the Difference Between Two MeansChapter 10. Bivariate Hypothesis Testing With One-Way Analysis of VarianceChapter 11. Bivariate Linear Regession and Correlation and Linear Partial Regression and CorrelationChapter 12. Multivariate Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis and Logistic Regression – An IntroductionChapter 13. Nonparametric StatisticsChapter 14. Real Life Adventures of Statistics UsersChapter 15. Summary and ConclusionsGlossaryAnswers to QuestionsBibliographyList of Key Formulas

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-9368-5
• Editorial: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 608
• Fecha Publicación: 12/03/2013
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
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