Introduction to Criminal Justice Colorado Technical University Justin Dodson 25 Nov 2012 Crime statistics as stated by the FBI’s Crime in the United States 2008 can paint a picture of crime in America; unfortunately‚ the picture is not 100% reliable. It is important for all users to become as well educated as possible about how to understand and quantify the nature and extent of crime in the United States and in any of the more than 17‚000 jurisdictions represented by law enforcement
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process What is a hypothesis? Hypothesis testing Statistical models Theory and the research process Theory • A belief – Can be true or false – P (belief) • A proposed/possible explanation for something – ‘Some students do poorly at statistics because they have less exposure to mathematics’ – ‘Women don’t date me because I’m ugly’ – ‘Manchester United lost the Premier League because they struggled with injury all season’ Theory • How do we test a belief/theory? – Collect evidence/data
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Statistics in Business QNT/351 Statistics in business The purpose of this essay is to examine the purpose of statistics in business. Our text‚ Lind (2011) defines statistics as “The science of collecting‚ organizing‚ presenting‚ analyzing‚ and interpreting data to assist in making more effective decisions” (p.5). Types and levels of statistics There are two major types of statistics‚ descriptive and inferential. Descriptive statistics is defined by Lind (2011) as “methods of organizing‚ summarizing
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which there is no relationship between the measurements in the different samples. Answer: True Difficulty: Medium 2. When testing the difference between two proportions selected from populations with large independent samples‚ the Z test statistic is used. Answer: True Difficulty: Medium 3. In forming a large sample confidence interval for [pic]‚ two assumptions are required: independent samples and sample sizes of at least 30. Answer: True Difficulty: Medium 4. In testing the
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The Joy of Stats The documentary video produced by Wingspan Production shows how useful and interesting statistic is. The professor has an idea that statistic will never be boring. By using statistic‚ you will know what happens on the earth and what will happen on the earth -- you can predict the future. For example‚ according to the statistic‚ people has higher salary always have higher life expectancy so you can predict if the person has high salary‚ the person has high expectancy. Also according
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H010: Adjustment of Emotional Score of English Boys and Hindi Girls 1 – Boys‚ 2 - Girls and 1 - English and 2 – Hindi Group Statistics | | Gender | N | Mean | Std. Deviation | Std. Error Mean | Emotional Score | Boys | 175 | 10.9829 | 3.97329 | .30035 | | Girls | 120 | 13.9750 | 5.18152 | .47301 | Independent Samples Test | | Levene’s Test for Equality of Variances | t-test for Equality of Means | | F | Sig. | t | df | Sig. (2-tailed) | Mean Difference | Std. Error Difference
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organizing and analyzing information to make the information more easily understood? statistics 2.Which of the following individuals used statistical methods during the 17th century to study the intelligence of his family members? Francis Galton 3.Which of the following would be used to describe the type of statistical methods used to organize and describe the characteristics of a collection of data? Descriptive Statistics(the average age of everyone in this class) When did the first collection of a
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to use statistics in your research This chapter explains the importance of statistics‚ and why you need to use statistics to analyse your data. What is statistics? Put simply‚ statistics is a range of procedures for gathering‚ organising‚ analysing and presenting quantitative data. ‘Data’ is the term for facts that have been obtained and subsequently recorded‚ and‚ for statisticians‚ ‘data’ usually refers to quantitative data that are numbers. Essentially therefore‚ statistics is a scientific
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the narrator of the documentary “Joy of Stats.” Statistics is the science of collecting data and learning from it. Statistics can show you the amount of babies that were born during World War II‚ or predict the amount of babies that could be born in 2030. In the documentary it shows the use of stats through out history‚ technology‚ and the development of the world‚ pretty much the overall practical use of stats. The first use of modern statistics was the Tabellverket in Sweden in 1749. The Tabellverket
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business statistics and data analysis. As businesses collect more and more information‚ the ability to efficiently and effectively utilize this information cause trained knowledge workers to be in greater demand. However‚ business statistics‚ where many of these high demand skills are taught‚ is a course that many students view in an unfavorable light. To revise the students’ perceptions of business statistics there is a need to revise the way that undergraduate business statistics courses
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