CJ 660 Statistics for Criminal Justice
This course will provide students with a grounding in the basic tools used in quantitative analysis in the field of criminal justice along with an introduction to the statistical issues involved in the design and logic of research. Students will learn to use various non-parametric tests of significance and will be introduced to the fundamentals of correlation and regression. Although students will make use of a standard statistical software package (SPSS), they will also learn the computation of several measures and statistical tests in order to enhance understanding of the concepts that underlie them. The emphasis in the course, however, will be on comprehension, not computation.