This lab consisted of crime analysis using the CrimeStats software. Crimestats is used to carry out a variety of space and time based analyses revolving around crimes. These analyses included Moran’s I spatial autocorrelation and clustering tests, nearest neighbour analysis and risk adjustment, Knox space-time index test, and kernel density estimation, which models predicted crime rates.
Many variables were also normalized against adult population values in order to create risk adjusted values, which present the likelihood of an individual encountering a crime, as compared to maps of raw crime counts.
Below is an example map of risk-adjusted crime clustering:
