This book looks at crime statistics from a statistical point of view, and evaluates the different sources of crime statistics with respect to completeness, e.g., missing data, measurement error, and sampling variability. The goal of the book is to promote statistical reasoning about statistics.
This book looks at crime statistics from a statistical point of view, and evaluates the different sources of crime statistics with respect to completeness, e.g., missing data, measurement error, and sampling variability. The goal of the book is to promote statistical reasoning about statistics.
Sharon Lohr, the author of Sampling: Design and Analysis, has published widely about statistical methods for education, public policy, law, and crime. She has been recognized as Fellow of the American Statistical Association, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and recipient of the Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Award and the Deming Lecturer Award. Formerly Dean's Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Arizona State University and a Vice President at Westat, she is now a freelance statistical consultant and writer. Visit her website at www.sharonlohr.com.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Measuring Crime. 2. Homicide Statistics. 3. Crime Statistics from Law Enforcement Agencies. 4. The Dark Figure of Unreported Crime. 5. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Selecting the Sample. 6. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Estimating Victimization Rates. 7. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Measurement Error and Missing Data. 8. Sexual Assault. 9. Fraud and Identity Theft. 10. "Big Data" and Crime. 11. Going Forward: Improving Crime Statistics.
1. Measuring Crime. 2. Homicide Statistics. 3. Crime Statistics from Law Enforcement Agencies. 4. The Dark Figure of Unreported Crime. 5. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Selecting the Sample. 6. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Estimating Victimization Rates. 7. The National Crime Victimization Survey: Measurement Error and Missing Data. 8. Sexual Assault. 9. Fraud and Identity Theft. 10. "Big Data" and Crime. 11. Going Forward: Improving Crime Statistics.
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