On The Application of Fuzzy Clustering for Crime Hot Spot Detection

One of the fundamental challenges in crime mapping and analysis is pattern recognition. Efforts and methods to detect crime hot-spots, or geographic areas of elevated criminal activity, are wide ranging. For aggregate data, such as total crime events in a census tract(s), measures of spatial autocor...

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Main Author: Grubesic, Tony H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2006
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 2006, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 77-105
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