Discuss Three Major Legislative Reforms to the Offense of Sexual

question 38

Essay

Discuss three major legislative reforms to the offense of sexual battery that states enacted during the 1970s and 1980s.

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Normal distribution

A statistical distribution where data is symmetrically distributed around the mean, often represented as a bell-shaped curve.

Interval estimate

An estimate of a population parameter that provides a range of values believed to contain the parameter.

Degrees of freedom

In statistics, it relates to the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

Confidence interval estimate

A range or interval of values, calculated from the sample data, within which the true population parameter is expected to lie, with a certain level of confidence.