Also Referred to as Criminal Investigation Analysis, This Form of Profiling

question 35

Multiple Choice

Also referred to as criminal investigation analysis, this form of profiling is based upon the FBI model developed by their Behavioral Science Unit.Psychosocial data are compared to other similar cases and investigators engage in an experiential/informational guessing technique to reconstruct the offenders' personality.

• A)offender profiling
• B)geographic profiling
• C)equivocal death profiling
• D)crime scene profiling

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Definitions:

Expected Frequency

The number of occurrences predicted in a category of a contingency table based on the assumption of a particular hypothesis, commonly used in chi-squared tests.

Expected Frequency

The number of occurrences of an event expected in a study based on a probability model.

Sample Size

The number of observations or subjects used in a study or experiment, which represents a portion of the population being studied.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data used to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis in a statistical test.