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Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics

Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics

Paperback

Series: Asa-CRC Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society

CriminologyGeneral LawProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 1138489077
ISBN13: 9781138489073
Publisher: Crc Pr Inc
Published: Mar 29 2019
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Every day, newspapers, magazines, web sites, and social media feature articles about the prevalence of crime. Some of these contradict each other; others use inaccurate statistics. Many people who see wildly diverging statistics conclude that no statistics should be trusted. However, the essence of the statistical discipline is that all statistics should be accompanied by a measure of their accuracy. This book looks at crime statistics from a statistical point of view, and evaluates the different sources of crime statistics with respect to completeness (i.e. missing data), measurement error, and sampling variability. The goal of the book is to promote statistical reasoning about statistics.

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