A Beginner's Guide to Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice Using R /

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Wooditch, Alese (Author), Johnson, Nicole J. (Author), Solymosi, Reka (Author), Medina Ariza, Juanjo (Author), Langton, Samuel (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Criminology. Research. Statistics . Research Methods in Criminology. Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.