The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of our seventh free and open eTextbook: Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis by Dr. Jaeyong Choi, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at West Chester University.
“Limited access to subscription-based statistical software poses obstacles when students want to apply the skills they acquired in college. Although students may learn programs like SPSS or Stata while at the university, they often find themselves unable to continue using these programs after graduation, making their acquired skills obsolete. As an open-source software program, R offers a solution to this challenge. It is freely accessible to anyone, including students, after they graduate. Therefore, I decided to write a freely available book for those interested in becoming crime analysts, focusing on learning statistics without delving too deeply into mathematics. Moreover, this book emphasizes practical applications by utilizing R for data analysis, ensuring students can develop relevant skills beyond the university. I hope that students can easily follow the instructions in this book and replicate the same outcomes using the provided data. This practical experience will demonstrate the value of statistics and R, ideally inspiring students to further their learning in these areas.”
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Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis
by Jaeyong Choi, Ph.D.
Keywords: Basic Statistics, Data Management, Analysis, R, Criminal Justice
About the Book
Limited access to subscription-based statistical software poses obstacles when students want to apply the skills they acquired in college. Although students may learn programs like SPSS or Stata while at the university, they often find themselves unable to continue using these programs after graduation, making their acquired skills obsolete. As an open-source software program, R offers a solution to this challenge. It is freely accessible to anyone, including students, after they graduate. Therefore, I decided to write a freely available book for those interested in becoming crime analysts, focusing on learning statistics without delving too deeply into mathematics. Moreover, this book emphasizes practical applications by utilizing R for data analysis, ensuring students can develop relevant skills beyond the university. I hope that students can easily follow the instructions in this book and replicate the same outcomes using the provided data. This practical experience will demonstrate the value of statistics and R, ideally inspiring students to further their learning in these areas.
Chapters
- Introduction to Crime Data Analysis, R and RStudio
- Introduction to Data Formations and Graphics
- Creating a New Variable and Producing Summary Statistics
- Central Tendency and Variability
- Reliability of a Scale
- Chi-Squared Test
- T-Test
- Analysis of Variance
- Correlation
- Linear Regression
Usage
Readers
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Instructors
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Citations
MLA: Choi, Jaeyong. Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis. First, The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT), 2024.
APA: Choi, J. (2024). Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis. (First). The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT).
Chicago: Choi, Jaeyong. Basic Statistics Using R for Crime Analysis. First. The Pennsylvania Alliance for Design of Open Textbooks (PA-ADOPT), 2024.
Peer Review
This eTextbook went through an Open Peer Review process. The peer review process used the Open SUNY Textbook Peer Review Guidelines, allowing peer reviewers to read the text carefully and evaluate the following:
- Educational Significance of Content including accuracy, appropriate and useful materials, valid and significant concepts, models, and skills, and key elements;
- Effectiveness as a Teaching Resource including a clear explanation of the concepts, alignment of materials to the learning process of the target audience, and alignment of the learning objectives with course goals; and
- Readability and Ease of Use including clarity and comprehensiveness, consistent writing style, readability and ease of use (logic, sequence, and flow), appropriateness for target readership level, and quality of Interactivity and multimedia learning objects.
As a part of the open peer review process, the public review conducted by Dr. Sungil Han is made available: Peer Review Document (PDF).
