Is this software still free? And must you still be involved in law
enforcement to get it?
Thanks,
Steve Wallace
Contributing Editor
Directions Magazine
http://www.directionsmag.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Ned Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 02:50 AM
Subject: MI CrimeStat update
> An update version of the CrimeStat spatial statistics program has just
> been released by the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ) Crime Mapping
> Research Center. CrimeStat is a free program for the statistical analysis
> of crime and other incident locations, developed by Ned Levine &
Associates
> of Annandale, VA. The program is Windows based and interfaces with most
> desktop GIS programs, including MapInfo. The program reads 'dbf' files
and
> outputs results in MapInfo's 'mif' format.
>
> The aim is to provide supplemental statistical tools to aid analysts and
> researchers in statistically describing the distribution of crime
incidents
> or other types of events (e.g., describing clusters of crime incidents;
> describing shifts in the spatial distribution of shopping trips;
describing
> the distribution of pedestrian accidents relative to the underlying
> population distribution).
>
> Version 1.1 is an update to the first version which was released
> in November 1999 and fixes some problems associated with 1.0 (e.g.,
> improved performance in Windows 98), adds new database features, (e.g.,
the
> ability to handle missing values), makes improvements to some of the
> existing routines (e.g., edge corrections to Ripley's K statistic), and
> adds new journey to crime calibration and estimation routines. The latter
> technique is an adaptation of location/travel behavior theory. It could
be
> used, for example, to identify an optimal location to place a senior
> citizen center given the distribution of seniors in a community and
> assumptions about their travel behavior.
>
> The program is fully documented with update notes and a new
> chapter on journey to crime estimation. There are also sample data sets
> provided. The new version can be downloaded from either NIJ's Crime
> Mapping Research Center web site:
>
> http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc
>
> or the web site of the NIJ archivist:
>
> http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/crimestat.html
>
> Ned Levine, PhD
> Ned Levine & Associates
> Annandale, VA
>
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