Which of the Following Is NOT a Factor in Explaining

question 122

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT a factor in explaining the decline of crime in the 1990s?

• A)more police were put on the streets
• B)communities established their own systems of surveillance and patrol
• C)the number of young men in the population declined
• D)the economic expansion of the 1990s
• E)decreased business surveillance of shoplifters

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Definitions:

Bell Shaped

Describes a distribution that is symmetrical and peaked in the middle, resembling the shape of a bell, often referring to the normal distribution.

Sampling Distribution

Likelihood patterns of a specific statistic that are based on randomly chosen samples.

Normally Distributed

Describes a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Approximately Normally Distributed

Refers to a data set or population that closely follows a normal distribution, characterized by a bell-shaped curve.