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Communicating the excitement and importance of criminal justice research, this practical and comprehensive book shows students how to perform and understand statistical analyses, while helping them recognize the connection between statistical analyses used in everyday life and their importance to criminology and criminal justice. This updated Fifth Edition is packed with real-world case studies and contemporary examples utilizing the most current crime data and empirical research available. Each chapter presents a particular statistical method in the context of a substantive research story.

Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice

Chapter 1. The Importance of Statistics in the Criminological Sciences or Why Do I have to Learn This Stuff?

PART I. Univariate Analysis: Describing Variable Distributions

Chapter 2. Levels of Measurement and Aggregation

Chapter 3. Understanding Data Distributions: Tabular and Graphical Techniques

Chapter 4. Measures of Central Tendency

Chapter 5. Measures of Dispersion

PART II. Making Inferences in Univariate Analysis: Generalizing From a Sample to the Population

Chapter 6. Probability, Probability Distributions, and an Introduction to Inferential Testing

Chapter 7. Point Estimation and Confidence Intervals

Chapter 8. From Estimation to Statistical Tests: Hypothesis Testing for One Population Mean and Proportion

PART III. Bivariate Analysis: Relationships Between Two Variables

Chapter 9. Testing Hypotheses With Categorical Data

Chapter 10. Hypothesis Tests Involving Two Population Means or Proportions

Chapter 11. Hypothesis Tests Involving Three or More Population Means: Analysis of Variance

Chapter 12. Bivariate Correlation and Regression

PART IV. Multivariable Analysis: Predicting One Dependent Variable with Two or More Independent Variables

Chapter 13. Controlling for a Third Variable: Multiple OLS Regression

Chapter 14. Regression Analysis With a Dichotomous Dependent Variable: Logit Models