Multilevel modelling of the number of property crimes: Household and area effects

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 205-233

  Tseloni, Andromachi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multilevel modelling; Negative binomial; Property crimes; Random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645056947     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00388.x     Document Type: Review

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