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Criminals are creatures of habit and their crime activities are geospatially, temporally and thematically correlated. Discovering these correlations is a core component of intelligence-led policing and allows for a deeper insight into the complex nature of criminal behavior. A spatial bivariate correlation measure should be used to discover these patterns from heterogeneous data types. We introduce a bivariate spatial correlation approach for crime analysis that can be extended to extract multivariate cross correlations. It is able to extract the top-k and bottom-k associative features from areal aggregated datasets and visualize the resulting patterns. We demonstrate our approach with real crime datasets and provide a comparison with other techniques. Experimental results reveal the applicability and usefulness of the proposed approach.
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Phillips, P., Lee, I. (2009). Criminal Cross Correlation Mining and Visualization. In: Chen, H., Yang, C.C., Chau, M., Li, SH. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. PAISI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01393-5_2
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