Characterizing spatial and chronological target selection of serial offenders

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 123-140

  Hering, Amanda S ^a   Bair, Sean ^b  

^a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^b Bair Analytics   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Crime series; K function; Kernel density estimation; Monte Carlo tests; Point patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890873593     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12029     Document Type: Article

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