Exploring hotspots of drug offences in Toronto: A comparison of four local spatial cluster detection methods

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 215-238

  Quick, Matthew ^a   Law, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Drug hotspots; Environmental criminology; Exploratory spatial data analysis; Local Moran's I; Scan statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876435093     PISSN: 17077753     EISSN: 19110219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.2012.E13     Document Type: Article

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