Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Go Bayes or go home : algorithms for improving predictive methods of police decision support / Jared C. Allen.

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1 online resource (x, 73 pages)

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Thesis (M.A.)--Ryerson University, 2013.

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This thesis tests novel methods of creating advice to assist police with behavioural aspects of investigations. Using a sample of 361 serial stranger sexual offenses, simulated samples, and a sample of 84 serial burglary offences, the paper predicts behavioural characteristics using frequency information and a cross-validation approach.

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