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Ronet Bachman, Raymond Paternoster

3rd ed.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education,

xix, 689, I-10 p. , ill. , 24 cm.

The purpose of statistics in the criminological sciences -- Levels of measurement and aggregation -- Understanding data distributions : tabular and graphical techniques -- Measures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- Probability, probability distributions, and an introduction to hypothesis testing -- Point estimation and confidence intervals -- From estimation to statistical tests : hypothesis testing for one population mean and proportion -- Testing hypotheses with categorical data -- Hypothesis tests involving two population means or proportions -- Hypothesis tests involving three or more population means : analysis of variance -- Bivariate correlation and regression -- Controlling for a third variable : multiple regression and partial correlation -- Regression analysis with a dichotomous dependent variable : logit models -- Appendix A: Review of basic mathematical operations -- Appendix B: Statistical tables -- Appendix C: Data sets from the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Uniform Crime Reports, a high-school survey on delinquency, and homicide defendants from 75 of the largest cities -- Appendix D: SPSS exercises that correspond to each chapter.

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6208

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2008

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1391/09/06

9780073129242 (alk. paper) ,

Includes bibliographical references (p. 682-687) and index.

2008