{"product_id":"a-beginners-guide-to-statistics-for-criminology-and-criminal-justice-using-r-paperback","title":"A Beginner's Guide to Statistics for Criminology and Criminal Justice Using R - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlese Wooditch\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eNicole J. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eReka Solymosi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to become familiar with the RStudio platform and tidyverse set of packages. \u003c\/p\u003e This volume will help users master the fundamentals of the R programming language, providing tutorials in each chapter that lay out research questions and hypotheses centering around a real criminal justice dataset, such as data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, National Crime Victimization Survey, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, The Monitoring the Future Study, and The National Youth Survey. Users will also learn how to manipulate common sources of agency data, such as calls-for-service (CFS) data. The end of each chapter includes exercises that reinforce the R tutorial examples, designed to help master the software as well as to provide practice on statistical concepts, data analysis, and interpretation of results.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe text can be used as a stand-alone guide to learning R or it can be used as a companion guide to an introductory statistics textbook, such as \u003ci\u003eBasic Statistics in Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software, R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to become familiar with the RStudio platform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume will help users master the fundamentals of the R programming language, in addition to program basics. Tutorials in each chapter lay out research questions and hypotheses that center around a real criminal justice dataset, such as data from the National Youth Survey, Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)-Body Worn Camera Survey, the Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities (SISFCF), the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the British Crime Survey\/Crime Survey for England and Wales, and the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Survey. At the end of each chapter are exercises that reinforce the R tutorial examples, designed to help master the software, as well as to provide practice on statistical concepts, data analysis, and interpretation of results.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe text can be used as a stand-alone guide to learning R or it can be used as a companion guide to an introductory statistics textbook, such as \u003ci\u003eBasic Statistics in Criminal Justice\u003c\/i\u003e (2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlese Wooditch is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Temple University. Her research interests include crime and place, quantitative methods, and evaluation research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicole Johnson is a doctoral student in the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. Her research interests include understanding group- and community-level behavioral dynamics, particularly those related to crime and responses to crime.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReka Solymosi is a lecturer in quantitative methods at the Department of Criminology at University of Manchester, and a member of the Software Sustainability Institute. Her research focuses on making use of new forms of data to gain insight into people's behaviour and subjective experiences, particularly focusing on crime, victimisation, transport, and spatial research. \u003c\/p\u003e Juanjo Medina is professor of quantitative criminology and Head of the Criminology Department at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on gender violence, gangs, crime prevention, and data science applications to criminal justice.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSamuel Langton is a researcher in quantitative criminology at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research primarily focuses on describing and explaining the spatial and temporal patterning of known offender residences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 330\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.72 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42718600134719,"sku":"9783030506278","price":126.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a8a60aa9740b5aa639ed24028776a76e.webp?v=1765082563","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-beginners-guide-to-statistics-for-criminology-and-criminal-justice-using-r-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}