CJ 2602- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

• School: Temple University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 2602
• Professor: thompson

Document Summary

Uses uniform set of steps to study something. Making a guess about how something works. Make a hypothesis about things that can actually be tested/falsi ed. Gure out how to assess our hypothesis. De ne a variable (or concept) by how it will be measured. Assign numeric values so we can systematically describe, explain and predict. Example: the death penalty is an ef cient use of cj resources. Variable - anything that can vary - can have more than 1 value. Ex: number of students in a class. Most basic way to organize or present data. Raw data is meaningless, so we have to do something with them. Response values (e. g. , male = 0, female = 1) In political orientation, for example, two respondents chose not to answer, so only. 83, instead of 85, cases can be analyzed based on this variable. P = 42/85 = . 494 is the proportion of males to the sample size.