Simple statistics : applications in criminology and criminal justice / by Terance D. Miethe.
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Language: | English |
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Los Angeles :
Roxbury Pub. Co.,
2006.
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Physical Description: | xi, 336 pages ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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 of means and proportions
- Statistical association in contingency tables
- The analysis of variance
- Correlation and regression
- Introduction to multivariate analysis.