Katherine W

question 8

Multiple Choice

Katherine W.Ellison (1985) used the concept of stakeholders in selecting police officers.What was her purpose for doing so?

• A)To make the police force more homogeneous
• B)To make the police force more representative
• C)To foster communication between the police and the community
• D)Both B and C

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Definitions:

Significance Level

The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true, used as a criterion for testing statistical significance.

Degrees of Freedom

The tally of individual figures or quantities which might be designated to a statistical distribution.

F-value

A value used in statistical testing to determine if the variances between two populations are significantly different, often arising in ANOVA (analysis of variance) settings.

Analysis of Variance

A statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples, to determine if at least one of the sample means significantly differs from the others.