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The cold floor pattern (a lack of homicides on days with extremely cold temperatures that was found by Cheatwood in Baltimore) is to be expected by chance. Under a model in which the number of homicides and the maximum temperature are independent, the probability that a day will fall below the cold floor is small. The Baltimore data do not support a model in which extremely cold weather suppresses human aggression.
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Loftin, C., Cheatwood, D. Cold floor effects on homicide. J Quant Criminol 12, 439–444 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354427
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02354427