Geographic profiling from kinetic models of criminal behavior

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 163-180

  Mohler, George O ^a   Short, Martin B ^b  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Crime; Geographic profiling; Stochastic differential equations

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION-REACTION; ANCHOR POINT; BAYES' THEOREM; BAYESIAN METHODS; CRIME DATA; GEOGRAPHIC PROFILING; HOUSING DENSITY; INHOMOGENEITIES; KINETIC MODELS; LOS ANGELES; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SPATIAL LOCATION; STEADY STATE; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TARGET SELECTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; KINETIC THEORY; PARKS;

CRIME;

EID: 84861634618     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/100794080     Document Type: Article

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