CRIM 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Central Tendency, Frequency Distribution, Motor Vehicle Theft
21 Mar 2016
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Foundaions of research: three key goals of research, exploraion/descripion (characterisics of phenomenon) Explore the phenomenon that you don"t know much about and describe its characterisics : explanaion (cause of a phenomenon) Ex. sexual ofending : applicaion (what works, what doesn"t?) Foundaions of research: example inimate partner violence (ipv) Esimaing the prevalence of ipv and the characterisics of the person involved (ex. age, gender, ethnicity, mental health) Evaluaion of treatment programs for individuals involved in ipv. Purpose of quanitaive methodology: inferienial staisics, populaion, sample, ex. Ipv populaion of all cases of ipv in canada. So we work with samples instead (representaive sub populaion) : allows us to infer back to that populaion, purpose of quanitaive research. To draw inference of populaion from sample accurately and reliably. Deined as a logical grouping of atributes. Atributes = characterisics/qualiies that describe some enity: ex. variable. Dv = level of alcohol consumpion (number of beer)
