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

Walker, Jeffery T.

Understanding statistics for the social sciences, criminal justice, and criminology / Jeffery T. Walker and Sean Maddan. - Burlington, Mass. : Jones & Bartlett Learning, c2013. - ix, 233 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

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

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.

9781449649227 (pbk.) 9781449634032 (pbk.) 1449634036 (pbk.)

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

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