Which Statement Is True About Electronic Monitoring

question 66

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about electronic monitoring?

• A)The costs are higher than incarceration.
• B)Institutional overcrowding is reduced.
• C)Passive monitoring systems consist of a radio transmitter worn by the offender that sends a continuous signal to the probation department computer.
• D)Active monitoring uses computer-generated random phone calls that must be answered in a certain period of time.

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Definitions:

Alternative Hypothesis

In statistical hypothesis testing, a statement that contradicts the null hypothesis, suggesting that there is a statistically significant difference between observed data and the expected outcome under the null hypothesis.

Two-tail Test

A statistical test in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is either greater than or less than a range of values.

Nominal Data

Data that represents categories with labels or names, where the order of the categories is not meaningful.

Z-test

A statistical test used to determine whether two population means are different when the variances are known and the sample size is large.