Methodology/ Statistics (Criminal justice)

Assignment 2- Week 4

By using Microsoft Excel or SPSS or any statistical package you are familiar with--you are tasked for this week to use the violent crime data below to perform the following activities.

Violent Crime Total
Agency: Baton Rouge Police Department	Year	Violent Crime
	1985	4,328
	1986	5,082
	1987	4,494
	1988	3,954
	1989	3,914
	1990	4,335
	1991	5,452
	1992	6,166
	1993	6,822
	1994	5,551
	1995	6,551
	1996	3,398
	1997	2,791
	1998	2,493
	1999	2,233
	2000	2,571
	2001	2,573
	2002	2,571
	2003	2,571

a. Run and interpret the violent crime data into Microsoft excel (or SPSS or any statistical package you are familiar with) to obtain the following components of measure of central tendencies- Mean, mode, and Median

b. Run and interpret the violent crime data into Microsoft excel (or SPSS or any statistical package you are familiar with) to obtain the following components of measure of dispersion (or measure of variability)- variance, standard deviation, and range.

Hints

Use the following videos (or self-viewing tutorials) to learn about the following

1. How to run data in Microsoft Excel

2. How to interpret data

Links- How to Run and Interpret Data in Excel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k17_euuiTKw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rEhWFhSqnI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYALCR6Bdxk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dw3KNn0dYw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efdRmGqCYBk