Analysis of vehicle theft: A case study in Malaysia using functional forms of negative binomial regression models

Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 2 L, 2013, Pages 389-395

  Zulkifli, Malina ^a   Ismail, Noriszura ^b   Razali, Ahmad Mahir ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Crime index; Functional form; Negative binomial regression; Overdispersion; Poisson regression; Vehicle theft

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896828314     PISSN: 19350090     EISSN: 23250399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12785/amis/072L02     Document Type: Article

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