Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice

Fourth Edition

by Ronet D. Bachman and Raymond Paternoster

Student Resources

The Purpose of Statistics in the Criminological Sciences
Levels of Measurement and Aggregation
Understanding Data Distributions
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Dispersion
Probability, Probability Distributions, and an Introduction to Hypothesis Testing
Point Estimation and Confidence Intervals
From Estimation to Statistical Tests: Hypothesis Testing for One Population Mean and Proportion
Testing Hypothesis with Categorical Data
Hypothesis Tests Involving Two Population Means or Proportions
Hypothesis Testing Involving Three or More Population Means: Analysis of Variance
Bivariate Correlation and Regression
Controlling for a Third Variable: Multiple OLS Regression
Regression with a Dichotomous Dependent Variable: Logit Models

Please download the appendix below for the key formulas.

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