Full Description
Using a non-technical approach, this book covers the full range of statistics topics-from descriptive statistical techniques to tests of significance and measures of association for two- andk- variable combinations for different measurement levels, multiple regression and multivariate analysis, collinearity, ordinary least squares regression, part and partial correlation, error, parsimony, and robustness. Chapters are filled with examples and illustrations from contemporary criminal justice and criminology literature with an emphasis on how statistics fits into the research process and how causality is established. This edition devotes a full chapter to SPSS, includes interpretive statistical tables with explanatory headnotes and footnotes, and offers step-by-step formulae to heighten the meaningfulness of statistics for criminal justice and social science majors.
Contents
1. Statistics in the Research Process2. Using SPSS in Social Research3. Graphic Presentation and Frequency Distributions4. Measures of Central Tendency5. Measures of Variability6. The Unit Normal Distribution and Standard Scores7. Statistical Inference and Tests of Significance8. Interval-Level Tests of Significance9. Nominal-Level Nonparametric Tests of Significance10. Ordinal- and Interval-Level Nonparametric Tests of Significance11. Measures of Association I: Nominal- and Ordinal Levels of Measurement12. Measures of Association II: Interval-Level and Alternative Level-of-Measurement Procedures13. An Introduction to Multivariate Statistics14. Multivariate Statistics: Multiple Regression15. Multivariate statistics: Multiple Regression with Limited Dependent Variables GLOSSARY APPENDIX A: STATISTICAL TABLESAPPENDIX B: ANSWERS FOR CHAPTER NUMERICAL PROBLEMS Name IndexSubject Index
