Gender Differences In The Juvenile Justice System

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anda Olsen
Data Analysis – Assignment 6
4/10/17

Difference in Treatment and Holding Time of Genders in the Juvenile Justice System

We are looking to see if there is any difference in the treatment of our youth’s in the Florida Juvenile Justice Facilities and in the system. In an annual year, we tested youth’s in the detention facilities and we will be testing the hypothesis test and we will be using the t-test so that we can see the means that are going to be differentiated and in how long the youths are held in our facilities by their gender.
When starting this test, we are using the female and male sets of data and we will

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