Numeric Response -Largest Percent of Inmate Population​

question 28

Multiple Choice

Numeric Response
-Largest percent of inmate population​

• A)Build our way out of overcrowding
• B)Strains staff morale
• C)Cheaper than prison
• D)Let prisons become more and more crowded
• E)Incarceration rate above historical norms
• F)African Americans/Hispanics
• G)Higher prison populations as a whole
• H)Average U.S.incarceration rate from 2000 to 2007
• I)Higher rate of imprisonment of specific groups
• J)Raw material of corrections

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability in a dataset, calculated by subtracting the value at the first quartile from the value at the third quartile.

Box Plot

A graphical representation that displays the distribution of data based on a five-number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Mean

The mean of a number set, determined by dividing the sum of all the values by the total count of values.

Interquartile Range

A measure of variability that describes the range within which the middle 50% of a data set lies, calculated as the difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles.