CRJU 7712: Applied Statistics and Data Analysis in CJ

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MSCJ program or permission of the MSCJ Program Director
This course introduces MSCJ students to core statistical concepts and techniques necessary to conduct criminal justice research including descriptive and inferential statistics. Students learn how to summarize criminal justice or criminological data (e.g. National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Uniform Crime Reports, National Crime Victimization Survey, etc.) with graphs and numbers, generalize from a sample to a population, report quantitative analyses appropriate for professional quality papers, and determine the relationship between two or more variables. This course emphasizes the application and interpretation of statistics using statistical computer software in the field of criminal justice data analysis.