CCJ 4934 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics, Methamphetamine
29 Mar 2016
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Social research on drug use: an introduction: social research: lying, sampling, and statistics. People underreport their cocaine and heroin use: relative sense. Respondents who say they used in the last year are statistically more likely to have done so than those who said they did not. Statistics: statistics provide clues on dramatic and dangerous acts, how powerful they are towards and against humans, basic facts about human existence, descriptive statistics. Describe what something is like in a quantitative sense numbers. Basic numerical facts, absolute numbers, percent, rates: inferential statistics. Measure cause-and-effect relationships between two or more variables. When things don"t happen that we want, we want to know what caused them. Utilize drug surveys, hospital records, systematic data about. Drug abuse warning network (dawn: information is collected in emergency department and medical examiners, depends on two factors. Recording activity of emergency department and medical examiner.
