spatial statistics

(No) Spillovers in reporting domestic abuse to police

Spillover effects in crime are typically studied as a result of offender behaviour. This study investigates whether spillover effects can occur in the reporting of domestic abuse by victims. Domestic abuse is a particularly interesting context …

Interpretable Models for Spatially Dependent and Heterogeneous Phenomena

Over the past decades, we have seen an increase in the availability of data that includes spatial information. Incorporating spatial information in models may result in performance improvements, which may then be used to better inform decision-making …

Burglary in London: Insights from Statistical Heterogeneous Spatial Point Processes

To obtain operational insights regarding the crime of burglary in London we consider the estimation of effects of covariates on the intensity of spatial point patterns. By taking into account localised properties of criminal behaviour, we propose a …

Accounting for spatial effects

This is a collection of my thoughts on why we have to consider spatial effects when modelling phenomena that occur on a geographical space. For example, occurences of a particular disease. TBC. (this is a test of the feature)

Understanding London Crime with Log-Gaussian Cox Processes

It is well understood that crime is clustered in both space and time. This is recognized by the emergence of so-called hot-spots, which are often short-lived. There are a num- ber of theories in criminology that provide an explanation for this, …