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Crime can be measured in many metrics, including occurrence (yes/no), seriousness (e.g., felony/misdemeanor), and frequency or rate. Frequency can be considered in two analogous ways – how soon until an occurrence (the rate) or how many occurrences per unit such as weeks, months, or years (counts). We can also look at frequency with respect to other units such as population groups or areal units like neighborhoods or counties.
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Most statistical packages have a default routine to save predicted values. Remember this is simply the value of the expected count derived from the model. In STATA there is a default command after model estimations that will allow you to obtain the predicted counts.
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MacDonald, J.M., Lattimore, P.K. (2010). Count Models in Criminology. In: Piquero, A., Weisburd, D. (eds) Handbook of Quantitative Criminology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77650-7_32
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