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Quantitative Data Analysis - SAGE Publications Inc
375 Quantitative Data AnalysisCHAPTER 13 Oh no, not data Analysis and statistics! We now hit the chapter that you may have been fearing all along, the chapter on data Analysis and the use of statistics. This chapter describes what you need to do after your data have been collected. You now need to analyze what you have found, interpret it, and decide how to present your data so that you can most clearly make the points you wish to you probably dread about this chapter is something that you either sense or know from a previous course: Studying data Analysis and statistics will lead you into that feared world of mathematics. We would like to state at the begin-ning, however, that you have relatively little to fear. The kind of mathematics required to perform the data Analysis tasks in this chapter is minimal. If you can add, subtract, multiply, and divide and are willing to put some effort into carefully reading the chapter, you will do well in the statistical Analysis of your data.
your statistical knowledge. It should be noted that, in this chapter, we focus primarily on the use of statistics for descriptive purposes. Those of you looking for a more advanced discussion of statistical methods used in criminal justice and criminology should seek other textbooks (e.g., Bachman and Paternoster 2008).
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