Description
Criminal Justice Statistics is a survey course designed to introduce undergraduate students to a wide range of statistical techniques used in the social
sciences. This course is a general survey of statistical methods used in the criminal justice field. It begins with a study of descriptive research techniques,
with an emphasis on the design and statistical analysis of descriptive experimentation. Topics will include central tendency and dispersion,
probability theory, frequency distributions and percentiles, correlation and regression, and descriptive research design. Throughout the course, considerable emphasis will be placed on practical application and interpretation of the statistical procedures covered.