The Application of New Spatial Statistical Methods to the Detection of Geographical Patterns of Crime

Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 151-168

  Rogerson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied GIS and spatial analysis; Common Bonferroni adjustment; Geographic information systems (GIS); Global chi square test; Spatial modelling; Spatial outliers; Spatial statistical analysis; Spatial statistics package and SPLUS

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS;

BONFERRONI ADJUSTMENT; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MODELLING; SPATIAL OUTLIER; SPATIAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL STATISTICS;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84948116003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470871334.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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