CRJS 3710 - Social Statistics
Fall 2026 Syllabus, Section A04, CRN 41963,
Credit hours: 3
Course Meeting Times
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Instructor
Richard Rogers
Email: rlrogers02@ysu.edu
Course Description
3710. Social Statistics. Coverage includes purposes of statistics, its importance and role in the field, descriptive, comparison, relational, and explanatory stats, as well as their set-up, creation, interpretation, application, and critique. Coverage will include stats in both normal and non-normal situations. 3 hours of lecture per week. Prereq.: CRJS 1500. Crosslisted with: SOC 3701, ANTH 3701. 3 s.h.
Course Readings
| Group | Title | Author | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Required | Statistical Analysis in Criminal Justice and Criminology | Vito, G. F., Blankenship, M. B., Kunselman, J. C | ISBN 978-1-4786-3784-4 |
The course readings are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances, research developments, current events, and/or to ensure better learning.
Assignments/Assessments
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Schedule of Topics and Assignments
| Week of | Reading(s) | Proposed Topic | Due/To Prepare for Class |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/24 | Readings: Vito et al., chapters 1 and 2 Video: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime Video: Levels of measurement |
Intro to Stats | 8/26: Discussion: Intro (1st post) 8/26: Quiz: Intro to Statistics 8/30: Terminology & Levels of Measurement 8/30: Exercise: Entering Data (2 parts) |
| 8/31 | Vito et al., chap. 3-5, 7 Video: Descriptive statistics for numeric variables Web: How to make a boxplot in Excel Web: How to make a histogram in Excel Video: The normal distribution Video: Confidence intervals |
Descriptive Stats for Interval-Ratio Variables | 9/2: Quiz and Exercise: Descriptive Statistics for Numeric Variables 9/2: Graphs for Interval-Ratio Variables 9/6: Normal Curve and Statistical Significance 9/6: Ohio Z-score |
| 9/7 | Video: How to. . . create a basic Pivot Tab le in Excel Video: Intro to Pivot Tables, charts & dashboards Video: Frequency tables in Excel Reading: Vito et al., chap 3 |
Descriptive Stats for Categorical Variables | 9/9: Exercise: Frequency Tables for Categorical Data 9/9: Exercise: Frequency Tables for Categorical Data 9/13: Exercise: Graphs for Categorical Variables 9/13: Group Project: Contract |
| 9/14 | Vito et al., chaps 3, 6, 10 Web: Scatter plot in Excel Video: How to calculate a correlation in Excel Video: How to construct a contingency table using a Pivot Table in Excel |
Bivariate Relationships I | 9/16: Exercise: Scatterplots and Timeline Groups 9/16: Exercise: Scatterplots and Pearson’s r 9/20: Quiz: Contingency Tables 9/20: Exercise: Contingency Tables |
| 9/21 | Vito et al, chap. 8, 9 Video: Independent sample t-test in Excel Web: Effect size calculator Video: Excel – one-way ANOVA Analysis Toolpak Video: An introduction to the general linear model |
Bivariate Relationships II | 9/23: Two-Sample T-Tests 9/23: One-Way (Single Factor) ANOVA 9/23: Two-Sample T-Tests 9/27: One-Way (Single Factor) ANOVA 9/27: Group Project: First Schedule Contact Point |
| 9/28 | Vito et al., chap. 11 Video: Regression analysis on Excel Video: ANCOVA models in Excel Video: SoftTech tutorials |
OLS Regression | 9/30: Exercise: OLS Regression 10/4: Exercise: Multiple Regression and ANCOVA Models 10/4: Group Project: Second Contact Point |
| 10/5 | Video: Binary logistic regression in Microsoft Excel using XLMiner | Logistic Regression and Group Project | 10/7: Binary Logistic Regression 10/7: Reflection 10/10: Group Project: Final Submission |
The course schedule, policies, procedures, and assignments in this course are subject to change in the event of extenuating circumstances, by mutual agreement, and/or to ensure better learning.