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The approach we have taken in implementing the mapping system has been to employ techniques most congenial to the users and to the nature of the data with which they must work. Sometimes this has led to formal quantitative approaches. Often, however, inferences based on an experienced officer’s eyeballing of the data to come up with a pattern have been more useful than inferences based on statistical significance.
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Maltz, M.D., Gordon, A.C., Friedman, W. (1991). Philosophy Underlying the Technical Approach. In: Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3042-7_5
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