Date of Award
8-2015
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Applied Statistics: M.S.
Department
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
College
College of Science and Engineering
First Advisor
David Robinson
Second Advisor
Shiju Zhang
Third Advisor
Mario Hesse
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Abstract
This Master’s thesis examines booking data from the Stearns County Jail covering the period of January 1, 2003, to January 31, 2015. The examination of the data will make use of Microsoft Excel, JMP, and SAS. The analysis will focus on recidivism, where recidivism is defined as being re-booked into the Stearns County Jail. The analysis will show a lognormal distribution best approximates the process at work behind the recidivism of those individuals going through multiple bookings in the Stearns County Jail. Differing recidivism for males and females are also revealed by the application of survival analysis, and gender is used as an explanatory variable in the lognormal distribution used as a model.
Recommended Citation
Erdahl, Thomas, "Survival Analysis, Recidivism, and Booking Data from the Stearns County Jail" (2015). Culminating Projects in Applied Statistics. 2.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stat_etds/2
