RT Article
T1 The historical variability of the age-crime relationship
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 10
IS 4
SP 361
OP 373
A1 Greenberg, David F. 1942-
LA English
YR 1994
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764277538
AB Methodological problems arising in fitting nonlinear regressions to a dataset are identified in context of research on the age-crime relationship. A modified chisquare distribution is fit to the age distribution of the seven Index crimes for the years 1952, 1957, 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, and 1988 to assess the historical invariance of the distribution. Problematic features of Britt's ( J. Quant. Criminol. 8, 175–187, 1992) analysis of the same data are highlighted.
K1 residuals
K1 General theory of crime
K1 chi-square function
K1 gamma density function
K1 mathematical-form invariance
K1 age distribution of crime
DO 10.1007/BF02221281