CRIM 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Substance Abuse, Central Tendency, Operationalization
30 May 2013
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Identify and explain issues about conceptualization and operationalization. Define statistical concepts relating to measurement of counts: Define and give examples of the different levels of measurement. Ratios, percentages, proportions and rates, central tendency, and dispersion. **for the paper, staple checklist, and follow it, literally just everything checked off when it"s getting marked. Topic : crime rates in 125 american cities lit review : 3 sources, journals, i. e. quantitative crim. Journal(how other researchers have looked at crime and how it differs between/across cities) do not do an annotated bibliography theory hypothesis conceptualization (x4) operationaization (3 for each concept. ) Theory, we construct hypotheses that we subsequently test with data. Theory is derived from from empirical generalization based on the observations. The process of assigning a unit of analysis to n attributed or a variable. Unit of analysis the person or thing from which data are collected. A variable a set of logical attributes that are of interest to the researcher.
