Statistics in Criminal Justice

Introduction: Statistics as a Research Tool.- Measurement: The Basic Building Block of Research.- Representing and Displaying Data.- Describing the Typical Case: Measures of Central Tendency.- How Typical is the Typical Case?: Measuring Dispersion.- The Logic of Statistical Inference: Making Statements about Populations from Sample Statistics.- Defining the Observed Significance Level of a Test: A Simple Example Using the Binomial Distribution.- Steps in a Statistical Test: Using the Binomial Distribution to make Decisions about Hypotheses.- Chi-Square: A Test Commonly Used for Nominal-Level Measures.- The Normal Distribution and its Application to Tests of Statistical Significance.- Comparing Means and Proportions in Two Samples.- Comparing Means Among More Than Two Samples.- Measuring the Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables.- Measuring Association for Interval-Level Data.- An Introduction to Bivariate Regression.- Multivariate Regression.- Multivariate Regression: Additional Topics.- Logistic Regression.- Multivariate Regression with Multiple Category Nominal or Ordinal Measures.- Growth Curve Modeling.- Hierarchical Design.- Special Topics: Confidence Intervals.- Special Topics: Statistical Power.- Special Topics: Experimental Design.- Appendices.- Glossary.- Index.