1. In statistics the notion of level of measurement is of paramount importance. There are four commonly recognized levels of measurement? What are they? Provide a definition for each. For each,...

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1. In statistics the notion of level of measurement is of paramount importance. There are four commonly recognized levels of measurement? What are they? Provide a definition for each. For each, provide an illustration. The illustrations provided must be relevant to criminal justice/criminology.2. Describe a situation in which:a. A one-tailed test of hypothesis would be appropriateb. A two-tailed test of hypothesis would be appropriatec. A hypothesis test for a t-distribution would be appropriated. A hypothesis test for a z-distribution (z score) would be appropriate3. You have collected the following information regarding the jobs that criminal justice students have gotten after graduation.JobMalesFemalesTOTALSPolice Officer9020110Parole/Probation Officer8816104Correctional Officer434083Graduate School50120170Employed in a non- criminal justice field254065TOTALS296236532A. Write an essay describing the differences between males and females in this group of students. Be sure to include the following in your paragraph.a. What is the ratio of males to females for the entire sample?b. Males make up what percent of the entire sample?c. What percentage of police officers are female?d. What percentage of correctional officers are male?e. What is the ratio of females going to graduate school to males going to graduate school?f. Students who are employed in a non-criminal justice field make up what percent of the entire sample.
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Answer To: 1. In statistics the notion of level of measurement is of paramount importance. There are four...

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Nominal scale of measurement
This includes variables that are categorical in nature. Exa
mple the type of crime. This is categorised as Assault, Battery, False, Imprisonment, Kidnapping, Homicide and Rape.
Ordinal scale of measurement
These are the variables that can be ordered or ranked in some order of importance. Example guilt feeling after conducting crime. This has levels: very guilty, somewhat guilty, not guilty.
Interval scale of measurement
Variables which have equal differences between scale values and equal quantitative meaning are measured on an interval scale of measurement. It does not have a true zero point. A true zero point means that a value of zero on the scale represents zero quantity of the construct being assessed. Example temperature at the crime location. Pyrczak, F. (2016). 
Ratio scale of...
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