Tracking criminal movement using math: Will the next strike be near or far away?
Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 12:31
in Mathematics & Economics
One way to study criminal behavior and predict a criminal's next move is by analyzing his or her movement. Several mathematical models have addressed this in detail, in particular, the UCLA "burglary hotspot" model, also the topic of a previous Nugget published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).