Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Fifth Edition is the ideal text for undergraduate and graduate-level statistics courses in criminal justice, criminology, and sociology programs. It teaches students how to collect, organize and record, analyze, interpret, and apply the statistical information.
"This is a very good statistics book; it is user-friendly, logically structured, and provides novel information that is not available in other comparable textbooks." — Viviana Andreescu, University of Louisville Statistics for Criminology ...
APPENDIX E. F DISTRIBUTION Source: R. A. Fisher and F. Yates, Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research , 6th ed. Copyright © R. A. Fisher and F. Yates 1963. Reprinted by permission of Pearson Education ...
Thoroughly updated and revised, the Third Edition of Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Analysis and Interpretation provides criminal justice students with a firm knowledge base in the theory and application of statistical ...
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Table 5.8 Duncan SEI for Bribery and Antitrust Offenders CATEGORY N s Bribery 83 59.27 19.45 Antitrust 112 61.05 11.13 Total () 195 X The standard deviation is a useful statistic for comparing the extent to which characteristics are ...
We will refer to this statistic simply as Pearson's r, named after its originator, the statistician Karl Pearson. Pearson's r measures the strength of the linear correlation between two continuous (interval- and ratio-level) variables.
This book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R. It offers a step-by-step guide for ...
... 505 complete spatial randomness, 507 contiguity types, 504 cross-product, 509 Euclidean distance, 505 inverse weighted distance, 506 k-nearest neighbors, 505 Manhattan distance, 505 mean crime deviations, 508 Pearson's correlation ...
This text is meant for both students and professionals who want to gain a basic understanding of common statistical methods used in criminology and criminal justice before advancing to more complex statistical analyses in future volumes.
"New to this edition is the accompanying CD that contains five criminal justice data sets.