Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Tools of the Trade
Chapter 1: Uses of Statistics in Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Research
Chapter 2: Context and Role of Statistics in Criminal Justice Research
Part II: Sketching It Out
Chapter 3: Finding and Categorizing Data
Chapter 4: Measures of Central Tendency
Chapter 5: Measures of Variation
Part III: Color It In
Chapter 6: The Normal Curve and Standard Scores
Chapter 7: Samples and Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 8: Differences Between Means: Two Samples
Chapter 9: Differences Between Means: Three or More Samples
Chapter 10: Non-Parametric Methods of Comparison for Nominal Data
Chapter 11: Non-Parametric Methods of Comparison for Ordinal and Interval-Ratio Data
Part IV: Detail Work
Chapter 12: Correlation
Chapter 13: Regression
Chapter 14: Statistics and Evaluation Research
Appendix A: Area Under the Normal Curve / Critical Values of z
Appendix B: Critical Values of Student’s t
Appendix C: Critical Values of F
Appendix D: Distribution of q Scores
Appendix E: Critical Values of Pearson’s Chi-squared (also used for Kuskal-Wallis H)
Appendix F: Critical Values of Mann-Whitney U
Appendix G: Critical Values of Spearman’s Rho
Appendix H: Critical Values of Pearson’s r
Appendix I: Answers to End of Chapter Exercises
Glossary
Index