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This chapter describes the analytical methods and data used in this analysis. The application of the principal component regression and the data envelopment analysis is explained as well as the reasons why New York City was chosen as location for this study.

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Newberry, J. (2017). Analytical Methods. In: Racial Profiling and the NYPD. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58091-3_5

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