Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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LET 3555 - Quantitative Applications in Criminal Justice Research
Examine quantitative applications in criminal justice research. Introduces the student to the use of statistical inferences and tests of significance to answer criminal justice research questions. Explore the application of multivariate statistics from a criminal justice construct. Develop a working knowledge of statistical research applications such as SPSS in social research problems.
Requisites: WARNING: not COMS 3520 or PSY 2110 or MATH 2500
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Conduct a review of contemporary criminal justice literature and how to construct a bibliography.
- Demonstrate knowledge of quantitative research methods as they apply to the current body of criminal justice literature.
- Differentiate measures of association and various levels of measurement for criminal justice variables.
- Explore the use of statistics in the criminal justice research process.
- Learn how to use SPSS in social research.
- Understand and differentiate measures of central tendency, measures of variability and the normal distribution from a criminal justice construct.
- Understand statistical inference and tests of significance as they apply to criminal justice research questions.
- Understand, interpret, and display frequency distributions.
- Use statistics to complete an applied research project.
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