This technical document describes the geocoding and cleaning procedures used when geocoding crime data in Southern California cities for the project, Crime in Metropolitan America: Patterns and Trends across the Southern California Landscape, a project funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). A key component of this project entailed the collection of incident crime…Continue Reading Procedures for cleaning, geocoding, and aggregating crime incident data
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Synthetic Estimation To Impute Values For Small Units Of Analysis
The synthetic estimation approach relies on the assumption that the relationship between variables at one level of analysis is similar at a different level of analysis, which is certainly not ideal. Nonetheless, whereas researchers often simply impute values from the larger units to the smaller units assuming homogeneity within the larger units, the synthetic estimation…Continue Reading Synthetic Estimation To Impute Values For Small Units Of Analysis