CJ 281: ELEMENTARY STATISTICS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESARCH
CJ 343: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN
Step-By-Step SPSS guides--downloads may not always be available.

SPSS GUIDE 1: Basics - Downloading Data, Opening Files, Data Entry, Descriptive Stats, Frequency Distributions, Bar Charts, Recodes

SPSS GUIDE 2: Cross Tabulation, Select If, Correlation, Partial Correlation, Bivariate and Multiple Regression

SPSS GUIDE 3: Constructing and Index with a Compute Statement

SPSS GUIDE 3a: Constructing and Index with a Count Statement

SPSS GUIDE 4: Independent Group T-Tests, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

SPSS GUIDE 5: Repeated Measures T-Tests and Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

SPSS GUIDE 6: Two-way Analysis of Variance (Factorial Design).

SPSS GUIDE 7: Mann-Whitney U Test and Kruskal-Wallis One-Way Analysis of Variance.

Examples of
Informed Constent Document (signature required) and Summary Consent Document (no signature required).

Sample Research Papers for Quantitative Research Design:

Click on the provided link to view a sample paper written by Angela Beck.  She later presented this paper at the 6th Annual UW-System Undergraduate and Graduate Conference (2005).  The paper is entitled:
The Process of Attaining a Victim Identity in a Case of Date Rape: The Impact of Gender, Victim Blame, and Victim Precipitation.  This paper represents an excellent example of how to conduct and write-up and experimental design.

Click on the provided link to view a sample paper written by Lindsay Ejnik.  She later presented this paper at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society in Minneapolis Minnesota (2005).  The paper is entitled:
Social Bond Theory and College Student Marijuana and Alcohol Use: A comparative Analysis between Two Causal Models.  This paper represents and excellent example of how to conduct and write-up survey analysis.
Sample Tests and Exercises for Quantitative Research Design--downloads may not always be available.

Data Entry Exercise: Entering Data into SPSS: take your time on this exercise.  The data that you enter will be used to answer questions on your first test.  If you haven't input the data correctly by the time of the first test, expect to loose points on your test. 

Sample Test 1: lecture, chapters 1, 2, 8, and 9 (Hagan) and SPSS (Kirkpatrick: pages 1 - 24)
Sample Test 2: lecture, chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6 (Hagan) and SPSS (Kirkpatrick: Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12)
Sample Test 3: SPSS-Nonparametric Tests of Comparisons, Correlation, and Regression Analysis (see Kirkpatrick: Chapters 14-17)

Sample tests for Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research--downloads may not always be available.

Sample Test 1: chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
Sample Test 2: chapters 5 and 6
Sample Test 3: chapters 7 and 8 (and Two-Way Analysis of Variance)
Sample Test 4: chapters 9, 10, 11, and 12

Step-By-Steps Guides for Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research--
downloads may not always be available.

Step by Step Guide #1: a guide on how to calculate bi-variate regression analysis by hand.
Step by Step Guide #2: a guide on how to calculate a Two-Way Factorial Anova by hand.
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