CrimeStat

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CrimeStat

• A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of
  Crime Incident Locations

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About CrimeStat

• A Spatial statistics software to analyze crime
  incident locations.
• It provides modules for spatial statistics,
  space-time analysis, finding patterns
• Hotspot Analysis
• Spatial Modeling
• Crime Travel Demand
• Used widely by law enforcement agencies
  throughout the country.
• Popular among Public Health agencies and
  research groups throughout the country.

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Hotspot Analysis Utilities
Courtsey Ned Levine and Associates
Courtsey Ned Levine and Associates
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Spatial Modeling

• Journey To Crime
• Estimates the likely residential location of a
  serial offender

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Spatial Modeling

• Spatio-Temporal Analysis
• Knox Index, Mantel Index
• Correlated Walk Analysis
• Estimate time and location of next event

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Crime Travel Demand

• Journey to Crime, Crime Travel Split

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Our Contributions

• Crime Stat Libraries 1.01
• Set of .NET components distributed by NIJ
• Crime Stat v 3.2
• Statistical Simulation functions for Spatial
  Analysis Routines
• Scalability to Large Datasets
• Self-Join Index2

1 http//www.spatial.cs.umn.edu/projects/crimest
at-pub/beta/ 2 Pradeep Mohan, Shashi Shekhar,
Ned Levine, Ronald E. Wilson, Betsy George, Mete
Celik, Should SDBMS support the join index ? A
Case Study from Crimestat. In Proc. of 16th ACM
SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances
in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008),
California, USA,2008.