Distance to the scaling law: a useful approach for unveiling relationships between crime and urban metrics.
We report on a quantitative analysis of relationships between the number of homicides, population size and ten other urban metrics. By using data from Brazilian cities, we show that well-defined average scaling laws with the population size emerge when investigating the relations between population...
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Main Authors: | Luiz G A Alves, Haroldo V Ribeiro, Ervin K Lenzi, Renio S Mendes |
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Language: | EN |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/b7cad0ce070040f9a11e252060901af4 |
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