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Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing the benefits of using statistical data in criminal justice. Special attention should be given to the following:
- Mean
- Median
- Mode
- Sample
- Population
- When are inferential and descriptive statistics appropriate in criminal justice statistics?
Include at least two peer reviewed references.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
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Running Head: Benefits of using Statistical Data: Criminal Justice.
Benefits of using Statistical Data: Criminal Justice.
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Benefits of using Statistical Data: Criminal Justice.
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Benefits of using Statistical Data: Criminal Justice.
The practitioners in the criminal justice have agreed that there is need to keep well-organized
data. Continued efforts by scientists (behavioral ) to explain and predict and to make guesses about crimes
and their nature that has led to the continuous use of statistics in this field. Various departments including
the law oversight and correctional departments have the aim of using statistics to reduce crime. James et
al., 2014 noted that Human characteristics that are regarded as variables include: employment status,
crime rates, and attitude. In the field of Criminal justice there include statistical measures such as mean
mode and median commonly referred to as central tendency and indicates a value located in the center of
the distribution. In th...
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