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Statistics Exercise 4

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Lecture Notes on Exercise 4: Things We Gotta Know:
Theory, Variable, Independent, Dependent

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Source materials for the following questions will be found in Adventures in Criminal Justice ResearchDowdall, Babbie, and Halley, 3, pp. Chapters 4, 5, 6.

Try to answer in 25 words or so. Make each answer integral, so that I can read it without reference to the exercise or the question itself.

  1. What is theory?

  2. What is a variable?

    1. What is an independent variable?

    2. What is a dependent variable?

    3. Give examples of independent and dependent variables.