TY - BOOK AU - Walker,Jeffery T. AU - Maddan,Sean TI - Statistics in criminology and criminal justice: analysis and interpretation SN - 0763730718 (casebound) PY - 2005/// CY - Sudbury, Mass. PB - Jones and Bartlett Publishers KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Statistical methods KW - Criminal statistics KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The logic of comparisons and analysis -- Valiables and measurements -- Not all statistical analyses involve numbers : summarizing data through graphic representation -- Meansures of central tendency -- Measures of dispersion -- The form of a distribution -- Introduction to bivariate descriptive statistics -- Measures of existence/statistical significance of a relationship -- Measures of the strength of a relationship -- Measures of direction and nature of a relationship -- Introduction to multivariate statistics -- Multiple regression I : ordinary least squares (OLS) regression -- Multiple regression II : limited dependent variables -- Introduction to inferential analysis -- Hypothesis testing -- Hypothesis tests -- Putting it all together UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004025531.html ER -