A latent Markov model for detecting patterns of criminal activity

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

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-132

  Bartolucci, Francesco ^a   Pennoni, Fulvia ^b   Francis, Brian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classification; Criminal trajectories; EM algorithm; Latent class model; Markov chains; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845755393     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00440.x     Document Type: Article

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