Table 6 Comparison of the RMSE between our spatial-demographic regression model and a naive model (average frequency over crime rates), for DV-related assaults in the period 2009–2013
From: Applying machine learning to criminology: semi-parametric spatial-demographic Bayesian regression
| Â | RMSE log crime rate | RMSE crime count | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Train | Test | Train | Test | |
Spatial-dem. reg. | 0.314 | 0.318 | 92.1 | 88.4 |
Naive | 0.544 | 0.552 | 162.4 | 158.1 |