A beginner's guide to statistics for criminology and criminal justice using R

A beginner's guide to statistics for criminology and criminal justice using R / Alese Wooditch, Nicole J. Johnson, Reka Solymosi, Juanjo Medina Ariza, Samuel Langton.

This book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software, R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to become familiar with the RStudio platform. This v...

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Main Authors: Wooditch, Alese (Author), Johnson, Nicole J. (Author), Solymosi, Reka (Author), Medina, Juan J. (Juan José) (Author), Langton, Samuel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Subjects:
Criminal statistics.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Statistical methods.
R (Computer program language) > Statistical methods.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Statistical methods
Criminal statistics
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Getting started
  • 2. Managing your data
  • 3. Data visualization
  • 4. Spatiotemporal data visualization and basic crime analysis
  • 5. Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency
  • 6. Descriptive statistics: measures of dispersion
  • 7. Statistical inference in criminal justice research
  • 8. Defining the observed significance level of a test
  • 9. Hypothesis testing using the binomial distribution
  • 10. Chi-square: a test commonly used for nominal-level measures
  • 11. The normal distribution and its application to tests of statistical significance
  • 12. Comparing means in two samples
  • 13. Analysis of variance
  • 14. Measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables
  • 15. Measuring association for interval data
  • 16. Introduction to regression analysis.

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