Political Science 138:
Quantitative Reasoning in Political Science

 

Homework 4.   Analyzing crime rates  (due OCT 5.)

Before doing this assignment, make sure you understand the crime data:

 Department of Justice, The Nation's two crime measures (adobe version

1.  Examine these three charts: excel file

2.  Write a paragraph summarizing each one.  Be sure to explain exactly what the numbers represented in the chart mean and why they are different from chart to chart.

3.  Save it as a Word (or htm) file and link to it from your homepage.