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An Analysis of Crimes by the Method of Principal Components
Author(s) -
Ahamad B.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2985232
Subject(s) - principal component analysis , principal (computer security) , mathematics , statistics , computer science , computer security
Summary The analysis has shown that, for some crimes, most of the variation over recent years can be reproduced by considering only one component. Moreover, this component appears to be identified with population change, suggesting that much of the increase in the crime rate can be “explained” by the rapid increase in population.