The logic of inference in criminal justice statistics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15316116 |
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| Authors | G “chuck” Rainville (0000-0002-1545-1977, American University, corresponding author), Gerard Rainville |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 355-366 |
| Publication date | 2001-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Criminal Justice Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1051-1253 • E-ISSN: 1745-9117 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10511250100086171 |
| OpenAlex | W2083321580 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
An approach to teaching criminal justice statistics is advanced that focuses on broad similarities between all inferential tests. Tests of inference include all processes in which a hypothesis is generated and, ultimately, rejected or not. The process of a criminal trial, which is an inferential test, is employed as an extended analogy, through which specific statistical concepts are introduced. The advantages to criminal justice students of learning statistical concepts through a justice-specific framework are discussed
Analogy · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Inference · Political science · Statistical hypothesis testing · Statistical inference · Statistics · Computer Science · Data Analysis with R · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Statistics Education and Methodologies · Artificial Intelligence
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| Highly cited | No |
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