Visualising crime clusters in a space-time cube: An exploratory data-analysis approach using space-time kernel density estimation and scan statistics

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 223-239

  Nakaya, Tomoki ^a   Yano, Keiji ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; GEOMETRY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANALYSIS APPROACH; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; HOTSPOTS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; SCAN STATISTICS; SPACETIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; THREE DIMENSIONAL MAPPING; TIME VARIANT;

CRIME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRIME; GIS; MAPPING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KYOTO;

EID: 77955044486     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01194.x     Document Type: Article

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