Statistics in criminal justice / David Weisburd, Chester L. Britt

Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction : Statistics as a research tool
Chapter 2. Measurement: The basic building block of research
Chapter 3. Representing and Displaying Data
Chapter 4. Describing the Typical Case: Measures of central tendency
Chapter 5. How typical is the typical case? : Measuring dispersion
Chapter 6. The logic of statistical influence: Making statements about population from sample statistics
Chapter 7. Defining the Observed Significance Level a test : a simple example using the binomial distribution
Chapter 8. Steps in a statistical test using the binomial distribution to make decision about hypothesis
Chapter 9. Chi-Square a test commonly used for nominal-level Measures
Chapter 10. The Normal Distribution and its Application to Tests
Chapter 11. Comparing means and proportion in two samples
Chapter 12. Comparing means among more than two samples: Analysis of Variance
Chapter 13. Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
Chapter 14. Measuring Association for Interval-level Data: Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
Chapter 15. An introduction to Bivariate Regression.
Chapter 16. Multivariate Regression
Chapter 17. Logistic Regression
Chapter 18. Special Topics; Confidence Intervals
Chapter 19. Special Topics: Statistical Power

Includes bibliographical references and index.