Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice - Rilegato

Bachman

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0073129240 ISBN 13: 9780073129242

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008

Riassunto

Statistical Methods for Criminology and Criminal Justice discusses the basic statistical procedures comprehensively while keeping it approachable and readable for students. Useful at both the introductory and intermediate levels, this text contains in-depth coverage of descriptive statistics, including graphical displays of data and exploratory data analysis, along with bivariate and multivariate analyses. Emphasis is placed equally on calculation and interpretation. The newly revised third edition offers new up-to-date crime data information and new research examples including specifics relating to youth crime, youth violence, hate crime and much more.

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L'autore:

Ronet Bachman received her Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in 1989 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow there at the Family Research Laboratory until 1991. For several years she worked at the U.S. Department of Justice as a statistician and research analyst. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware. She is the author of many articles that explore the epidemiology and origins of violent victimization, with particular emphasis on victimization against women, the elderly, and minority populations. She also is the author of Death and Violence on the Reservation (Greenwood Press) and coauthored Stress, Culture and Aggression in the United States (Yale University Press).

Contenuti:

Chapter 1: The Purpose of Statistics in the Criminological Sciences

Chapter 2: Levels of Measurement and Aggregation

Chapter 3: Understanding Data Distributions

Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency

Chapter 5: Measures of Dispersion

Chapter 6: Probability, Probability Distributions, and an Introduction to Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 7: Point Estimation and Confidence Intervals

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

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

Chapter 13: Controlling for a Third Variable: Multiple Regression and Partial Correlation

Chapter 14: Regression Analysis with a Dichotomous Dependent Variable: Logit Models

Appendix A: A Review of Basic Mathematical Operations

Appendix B: Statistical Tables

Appendix C: References

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0073129240
• ISBN 13: 9780073129242
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 720