What Is the Most Common Measure Used to Establish the Appropriate

question 6

Multiple Choice

What is the most common measure used to establish the appropriate size of a police force?

• A)the number of people who live and/or work in any given area
• B)a comparison of the number of Criminal Code incidents (excluding traffic incidents)reported to police with the number of officers in the police force that handles these incidents
• C)the population base of the area to be policed
• D)the population-to-police officer ratio

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values in a calculation that are free to vary when estimating statistical parameters.

Randomized Block Design

An experimental design in which subjects are grouped into blocks based on certain characteristics before being randomly assigned to different treatments.

Sum of Squares for Blocks

A measure used in analysis of variance to quantify the variability among different blocks or groups in an experiment.

Randomized Block Design ANOVA

A statistical method used in experiments to minimize the variability among experimental units by grouping similar units together and then randomly assigning treatments within these blocks.