X4L - SDiT (Survey Data in Teaching)

Investigating Crime

Introduction

Resources

Learning Modules
        Module 1
        Module 2
        Module 3
        Module 4
        Module 5
        Module 6

Glossary

Tutor Resources

Key Skills

Accessing Databases (NSDstat)

Accessing Databases (Other)

Acknowledgements

Module 4 : Examining Evidence: How to Interrogate Crime Statistics

This is a skills-based module concerned with explaining the analysis of associations between two variables.

• You learn how to alter data
• You learn how to examine associations between two variables
• You learn how to present and analyse data in tables

Skills covered

• Understanding of concepts of association and independence
• Use of computer program for recoding data
• Use of computer program for construction of 2-way table
• Analysis of 2-way tables

There is a separate appendix to module four which looks at statistical significance, and shows how to use NSDstat to investigate this.

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