On the false alarm of planar K-function when analyzing urban crime distributed along streets

Social Science Research

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 611-632

  Lu, Yongmei ^a   Chen, Xuwei ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime hot spot; False positive negative; K function; Point pattern analysis; Spatial autocorrelation; Urban street network; Vehicle theft

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147092601     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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