Modeling criminal careers as departures from a unimodal population age-crime curve: The case of marijuana use

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 500, 2012, Pages 1427-1440

  Telesca, Donatello ^a   Erosheva, Elena A ^b   Kreager, Derek A ^c   Matsueda, Ross L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve registration; Drug use; Functional data; Generalized linear models; Individual trajectories; Longitudinal data; MCMC; Unimodal smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871987902     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.716328     Document Type: Article

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