Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (14 July 2021) © 2022

  • James Alan Fox Northeastern University
  • Jack A. Levin Northeastern University
  • David R. Forde University of North Texas at Dallas

Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research

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Table of contents

Chapter 1: Why the Criminal Justice Researcher Uses Statistics

Part I -- DESCRIPTION
Chapter 2: Organizing the Data
Chapter 3: Measures of Central Tendency
Chapter 4: Measures of Variability

Part II -- FROM DESCRIPTION TO DECISION MAKING
Chapter 5: Probability and the Normal Curve
Chapter 6: Samples and Populations

Part III -- DECISION MAKING
Chapter 7: Testing Differences between Means
Chapter 8: Analysis of Variance
Chapter 9: Nonparametric Tests of Significance

Part IV -- FROM DECISION MAKING TO ASSOCIATION
Chapter 10: Correlation
Chapter 11: Regression Analysis
Chapter 12: Nonparametric Measures of Correlation

Part V -- Applying Statistics
Chapter 13: Applying Statistical Procedures to Research Problems

Appendix A: Using SPSS
Appendix B: A Review of Some Fundamentals of Mathematics
Appendix C: Tables
Appendix D: List of Formulas

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