Advising caution in studying seasonal oscillations in crime rates.

Most types of crime are known to exhibit seasonal oscillations, yet the annual variations in the amplitude of this seasonality and their causes are still uncertain. Using a large collection of data from the Houston and Los Angeles Metropolitan areas, we extract and study the seasonal variations in a...

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Main Authors: Kun Dong, Yunbai Cao, Beatrice Siercke, Matthew Wilber, Scott G McCalla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5609764?pdf=render