The Relationship of Alcohol to Violent Crimes Among Inmates May

question 12

Multiple Choice

The relationship of alcohol to violent crimes among inmates may be all but which:

• A)inflated, as intoxicated offenders are caught more than are light drinkers or nondrinkers
• B)distorted as some cases involve mistaken or false charges
• C)easily generalizable to the general population ^{d.a spurious relationship due to some third variable}

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Definitions:

Confidence Estimate

A range or single value derived from a sample statistic that covers an unknown population parameter with a certain confidence level.

T-Distribution

Is a type of probability distribution that is symmetric and bell-shaped, used in statistics when the sample size is small and the population standard deviation is unknown.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of values in a calculation that are free to vary without violating any constraints, used to determine the shape of various statistical distributions.

Sample Mean

The mean of a dataset, found by adding up all the values and then dividing the total by the count of values in the set.