Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice Erika Cespedes author and illustrator of The

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Statistical Applications in Criminal Justice Erika Cespedes author and illustrator of TheThis textbook is specifically designed to give criminology and law students the elements of social statistics. Using examples entirely from criminology, law and justice research, the authors begin with simple mathematical notation and manipulation and work up through: } definitions of major terms } reading of graphs, charts and tables } theoretical basis of statistics, with discussions of probability, sampling and hypothesis testing. Only when the