Using prisons to stimulate demographic change: Understanding one community’s concerns

Demographic Characteristics and Concerns of New Arrivals to Rural Nebraska

Immigration is often thought of as a problem primarily for large metropolitan areas. However, much of the recent literature dealing with the meat processing industry focuses on the migration it generates toward small, rural towns in the American Midwest. The prior studies frequently use a qualitative method. The primary goal of this study was to explore the characteristics of new arrivals to tw...

Egalitarian Concerns and Population Change

Demographic Change and Transport

Quality of Operations at Private and Public Prisons: Using Trends in Inmate Misconduct to Compare Prisons

A model-based approach was used to develop performance measures from inmate misconduct data to compare public and private prisons. The performance measures indicated the impact of different prisons upon raising or lowering the probability of inmate misconduct. Data for all misconduct and two categories of misconduct, violent and drug, were generated for the 36 month period between January of 19...

Understanding one-way ANOVA using conceptual figures

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is one of the most frequently used statistical methods in medical research. The need for ANOVA arises from the error of alpha level inflation, which increases Type 1 error probability (false positive) and is caused by multiple comparisons. ANOVA uses the statistic F, which is the ratio of between and within group variances. The main interest of analysis is focused o...