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This text is written specifically for the criminal justice student and for student comprehension. Filled with examples and exercises pertinent for criminal justice students, the text assumes no previous exposure to statistics. It takes a research-oriented approach by focusing on teaching the student how to interpret, critique, research, and conduct basic statistical analyses. Statistics is the students' tool to answering questions.
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This textbook covers the basics of statistics as they apply to the study of criminal justice, with emphasis on conceptual rather than computational issues. Chapters discuss displays of data, measuring the central tendency, dispersion, statistical inference, binomial distributions, statistical testing, the chi- square, normal distribution and statistical significance, variance, measures of association, Pearson's correlation coefficient, bivariate regression, multivariate regression, logistic regression, confidence intervals, and statistical power. Weisburd teaches at the University of Maryland; Britt, at Arizona State University West. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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