@article{ref1,
title="The Interchangeability of Homicide Data Sources: A Spatial Analytical Perspective",
journal="Homicide studies",
year="2002",
author="Baller, Robert D. and Anselin, Luc and Messner, Steven F. and Dean, G.",
volume="6",
number="3",
pages="211-227",
abstract="The authors extend the work of Wiersema, Loftin and McDowall (2000) by assessing theinterchangeability of Supplemental Homicide Report (SHR) and National Center forHealth Statistics (NCHS) homicide rates in the context of spatial analysis. Conclusionsdrawn from spatial analyses may be affected by the choice of data source if theunderrecording of homicide tends to cluster in geographic space more strongly in onedata source than the other. Such a situation could alter indications of homicide rate clusteringand substantive conclusions drawn from multivariate spatial regression models.Results indicate that although these data sources are interchangeable for urban counties,spatial effects and the effects of social structural factors vary by data source for ruralcounties.<p />",
language="",
issn="1088-7679",
doi="10.1177/1088767902006003003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767902006003003"
}