8. Kleck and Kovandzic (2009) examined whether the level of homicide in a particular city affected the likelihood that people in that city would own firearms. They measured homicide as the number of homicides that took place in the city in 1 year divided by the total city population. They measured handgun ownership as whether survey respondents said they did or did not own a gun. a. Identify the independent variable in this study. b. Identify the level of measurement of the independent variable. c. Identify the dependent variable in this study. I

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8. Kleck and Kovandzic (2009) examined whether the level of homicide in a particular city
affected the likelihood that people in that city would own firearms. They measured
homicide as the number of homicides that took place in the city in 1 year divided by the
total city population. They measured handgun ownership as whether survey respondents
said they did or did not own a gun.
a. Identify the independent variable in this study.
b.
Identify the level of measurement of the independent variable.
Identify the dependent variable in this study.
c.
d. Identify the level of measurement of the dependent variable.
e. Identify the unit of analysis. Hint: this study has two!
I
Transcribed Image Text:8. Kleck and Kovandzic (2009) examined whether the level of homicide in a particular city affected the likelihood that people in that city would own firearms. They measured homicide as the number of homicides that took place in the city in 1 year divided by the total city population. They measured handgun ownership as whether survey respondents said they did or did not own a gun. a. Identify the independent variable in this study. b. Identify the level of measurement of the independent variable. Identify the dependent variable in this study. c. d. Identify the level of measurement of the dependent variable. e. Identify the unit of analysis. Hint: this study has two! I
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There are two types of variable they are independent and dependent variable. Independent variable are variable which does not affected by the another variable. Dependent variable are variable which are affected by the another variable. There are four types of level of measurements, they are nominal, ordinal, ratio and interval. 

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