Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas: A modelling approach

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

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1019-1034

  Haining, Robert ^a   Law, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Offence and offender mapping; Repeated measurements; Spatial modelling; Spatial random effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848881667     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00477.x     Document Type: Article

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