Criminal Justice and Criminology

Which of the following is intended to summarize or describe data or show relationships between variables?

Which of the following enables generalization or inference of sample findings to larger populations or assessment of the probability of certain findings?

Which of the following are summary statistics that describe the typical,middle,or average score?

Which of the following refers to the simplest measure of central tendency and is simply the most frequently occurring score?

Which of the following is a measure of central tendency that is applicable to ordinal ranked)data?

Which of the following is the most familiar measure of central tendency and simply involves dividing the total score by the total number of cases N?

Which of the following is the simplest measure of dispersion and represents either the highest and lowest scores or the distance between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution?

Which of the following is a highly useful statistic in which plus or minus one standard deviation always equals 68 percent of a normal curve?

Which of the following refers to a bell-shaped curve that describes a variety of phenomena?

Which of the following is a test of the independence of the relationship between nominal or categorical variables?

Which of the following refers to the number of cells that are free to vary;that is,once the value of certain cells is fixed,the others are no longer free to vary?

Which of the following refers to a chi-square-based measure of relationship in which a zero equals no relationship,but the upper limit is less than one?

Which of the following refers to a useful chi-square-based measure of relationship appropriate for a 2 X 2 table?

Which of the following assumes some interval level of measurement and a normal population?

Which of the following refers to the distribution free statistics in which few assumptions are made regarding the normality of the population?

Which of the following assumes that there is no difference between the groups being compared or no relationship in the population?

Which of the following assesses whether the differences between observed and expected values could be due to chance or are statistically significant?

Which of the following is used to compare the sample means of two groups?

Which of the following is used in comparing three or more sample means?

Which of the following occurs when one variable enables the prediction of the value of the second variable?