Try to answer these 20 Criminal Justice and Criminology (Statistics) MCQs and check your understanding of the Criminal Justice and Criminology (Statistics) subject.
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A. True
B. False
A. True
B. False
A. True
B. False
A. True
B. False
A. True
B. False
A. STATA
B. SPSS
C. SAS
D. All of these
A. Replication
B. Examining the effectiveness of policy, programs, or interventions
C. Studying events in which researchers have limited knowledge
D. None of these
A. The process used to obtain scientific results
B. The manner in which research is written
C. How researchers decide what to study
D. A complex type of statistical analysis
A. Calculus
B. Structural equation modeling
C. Basic algebra
D. Geometry
A. A complex process aimed to confuse students
B. The process of gathering information and knowledge that is accepted by other scientists
C. How we study the world around us
D. None of these
A. To see if previous studies are accurate, when new samples are used
B. To simply retest exactly what has been done before
C. To publish another article
D. None of these
A. Provides a way to prove scientific laws
B. Increases the potential for a Type II error
C. Provides small pieces of theories that must be true in order for scientific explanations to hold
D. None of these
A. They help inform policy.
B. They form the backbone of scientific research.
C. They help test important hypotheses and theories.
D. All of these
A. A process that ensures the sample mirrors the population from which it is drawn.
B. A process that involves hypothesis testing.
C. A process that ensures the population mirrors the sample from which it is drawn.
D. None of these
A. Being willing to spend time and effort practicing
B. Being able to understand multivariate regression the first day of class
C. Being great at math
D. Understanding complex calculus-based equations
A. True
B. False
A. Evaluation research
B. None of these
C. Categorical
D. Continuous
A. Exploratory research
B. Choose a statistical statistic
C. Make a prediction
D. None of these
A. None of these
B. Hypothesis
C. Coefficient of determination
D. Sign
A. True
B. False
A. Population
B. Ratio
C. None of these
D. Ordinal
A. Hypothesis
B. All of these
C. Probability sampling
D. Coefficient of determination
A. The standard error
B. Replication
C. The standard deviation
D. None of these
A. False
B. True
A. None of these
B. They examine the mean differently.
C. The t is several different curves, unlike a fixed z curve.
D. Science
A. Dependent samples t
B. Theory
C. None of these
D. Independent samples t
A. Differential association
B. Strain
C. Corporate culture
D. Control
A. Socialization into a violent subculture
B. Inconsistencies in the ability to achieve the American Dream
C. Growing up in a transitional neighborhood
D. Being held to a middle class measuring rod