The spatio-temporal modeling for criminal incidents

Security Informatics

Table 2 Features Used for Modeling

Feature	Type	Description	Significance*
κ	Temporal	the dummy variable indicating the time of the previous incident	2,3,4
college_univ_dist	distance	the distance to the nearest college or university	1,2,3
k_12_dist	distance	the distance to the nearest K-12 shool	1,2,4
roads_all_dist	distance	the distance to the nearest road	1,2,3,4
roads_interstates_dist	distance	the distance to the nearest interstate highway	2,3
small_businesses_dist	distance	the distance to the nearest small business	1,2,3,4
median_val	demographic	median value of all housing unites	1,2,3
males	demographic	number of males	1,2,3
widowed	demographic	number of people whose spouse died
divorced	demographic	number of people who are divorced	1,2,3,4
owner_occ	demographic	count of owner-occupied households	1,2,4
medianrent	demographic	median rent charged for all housing units that are rented	1

* The significance column describes whether a feature is significant (at the level of 95%) in the following models: 1-Spatial GLM, 2-ST-GAM, 3-LST-GAM (in region S₁), and 4-LST-GAM (in region S₂).