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This volume is concerned with the use of statistics in a law enforcement context. Statistics does not just deal with numbers. It is concerned with making sense of data of all sorts and with trying to find patterns that may be hidden in data.
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Maltz, M.D., Gordon, A.C., Friedman, W. (1991). Introduction. In: Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3042-7_1
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