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CrimeStat: A Spatial Statistical Program for the Analysis of Crime Incidents

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Encyclopedia of GIS

Synonyms

CrimeStat; Spatial statistics program; Crime mapping; Hotspot; Centrographic measures; Interpolation; Space-time interaction; Knox test; Mantel test; Correlated walk; Journey to crime analysis; Geographic profiling; Crime travel demand

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CrimeStat is a spatial statistics and visualization program that interfaces with desktop GIS packages. It is a stand-alone Windows program for the analysis of crime incident locations and can interface with most desktop GIS programs. Its aim is to provide statistical tools to help law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. The program has many statistical tools, including centrographic, distance analysis, hot spot analysis, space-time analysis, interpolation, Journey-to-Crime estimation, and crime travel demand modeling routines. The program writes calculated objects to GIS files that can be imported into a GIS program, including shape, MIF/MID, BNA, and ASCII. The National Institute of...

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    The program is available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/crimestat.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Levine, N. (2008). CrimeStat: A Spatial Statistical Program for the Analysis of Crime Incidents. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_229

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