Another look at across-crime similarity coefficients for use in behavioural linkage analysis: An attempt to replicate woodhams, Grant, and price (2007)

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 359-380

  Melnyk, Tamara ^a   Bennell, Craig ^a   Gauthier, Donna J ^a   Gauthier, Donald ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Jaccard's coefficient; Linkage analysis; Roc analysis; Serial burglary; Serial homicide; Taxonomic similarity index

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957875259     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: 14772744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10683160903273188     Document Type: Article

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