The simple spatial disaggregation approach to spatio-temporal crime forecasting

International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 509-523

  Ivaha, Christian ^a   Hasan, Al Madfai ^a   Higgs, Gary ^a   Ware, Andrew ^a   Corcoran, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

ARIMA; Geographical information system (GIS); Hierarchical profiling approach (HPA); Mean absolute percentage error; Mean root squared error; Spatial and temporal analysis of crime (STAC); Spatial disaggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849107761     PISSN: 13494198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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