Understanding statistics for the social sciences, criminal justice, and criminology
by
 
Walker, Jeffery T.

Title
Understanding statistics for the social sciences, criminal justice, and criminology

Author
Walker, Jeffery T.

ISBN
9781449649227
 
9781449634032

Personal Author
Walker, Jeffery T.

Publication Information
Burlington, Mass. : Jones & Bartlett Learning, ©2013.

Physical Description
ix, 233 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

General Note
Includes index.
 
Includes online access code.
 
Adapted from: Statistics in criminology and criminal justice / Jeffery T. Walker, Sean Maddan. 3rd ed. c2009.

Contents
The foundations of statistics: theory, methods, and measurement -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion and form -- Bivariate tables and analysis -- Measures of existence and statistical significance -- Measures of the strength of a relationship -- Measures of the direction and nature of a relationship -- Introduction to inferential statistics -- Hypothesis testing -- Hypothesis tests -- Multivariate statistics, anova, and ols regression -- Putting it all together.

Subject Term
Criminal statistics -- Textbooks.
 
Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Textbooks.

Added Author
Maddan, Sean.
 
Walker, Jeffery T. Statistics in criminology and criminal justice.


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