CJA 396 Criminal Justice Statistics

This course reviews appropriate descriptive and inferential statistical techniques for use in criminal justice research. Topics include descriptive statistics as a tool to summarize and describe groups of data, and inferential statistics including parametric and nonparametric hypotheses testing as tools for making inferences about populations from samples. Students will be required to use these techniques in the classroom and computer lab when creating and analyzing datasets using SPSS. Prerequisite: CJA 101 and a minimum grade of 2.0 in CJA 377.

3 credit hours