• Measuring Global Spatial Autocorrelation with Data Reliability Information 

  Koo, Hyeongmo; Wong, D. W. S.; Chun, Yongwan

  Assessing spatial autocorrelation (SA) of statistical estimates such as means is a common practice in spatial analysis and statistics. Popular SA statistics implicitly assume that the reliability of the estimates is ...

• Spatial Autocorrelation for Massive Spatial Data: Verification of Efficiency and Statistical Power Asymptotics 

  Luo, Q.; Griffith, Daniel A.; Wu, H.

  Being a hot topic in recent years, many studies have been conducted with spatial data containing massive numbers of observations. Because initial developments for classical spatial autocorrelation statistics are based on ...

• Just Do It? An Examination of Race on Attitudes Associated with Nike’s Advertisement Featuring Colin Kaepernick 

  Intravia, J.; Piquero, Alex R.; Piquero, Nicole L.; Byers, B.

  The relationship between race and just about any social issue has been and continues to be controversial. Within the context of literature on public opinion regarding sports and social movements, this study considers the ...

• Implementing Moran Eigenvector Spatial Filtering for Massively Large Georeferenced Datasets 

  Griffith, Daniel A.; Chun, Yongwan

  Moran eigenvector spatial filtering (MESF) furnishes an alternative method to account for spatial autocorrelation in linear regression specifications describing georeferenced data, although spatial auto-models also are ...

• Spatiotemporal Association between Temperature and Assaults: A Generalized Linear Mixed-Model Approach 

  Jung, Yeondae; Kim, Dohyeong; Piquero, Alex R.

  We aim to analyze the association between temperature and assault at highly disaggregated spatial units with great temporal resolution to investigate their spatiotemporal dynamics. We applied generalized linear mixed models ...

• TwoRavens for Event Data 

  D'Orazio, Vito; Deng, Marcus; Shoemate, Michael

  Event data contains information for descriptive, predictive and inferential statistical analysis of political and social actions. The varied formats and large size of event datasets present considerable difficulties for ...

• Opposition Support and the Experience of Violence Explain Colombian Peace Referendum Results 

  Dávalos, E.; Morales, L. F.; Holmes, Jennifer S.; Dávalos, L. M.

  What factors led to the surprise defeat of the Colombian peace referendum? Initial analyses suggested a link between support for peace and the experience of violence, but economic conditions and political support for ...

• White-Collar Crime Is Crime: Victims Hurt Just the Same 

  Piquero, Nicole L.

  No abstract available. From the beginning of the article: "Scholars examining public perceptions of crime seriousness have long shown, through their findings, that white‐collar crimes are considered as equally serious as ...

• Understanding the Link between Organizational Communication and Innovation: An Examination of Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit Organizations in South Korea 

  Suh, Jiwon; Harrington, James R.; Goodman, Doug

  Innovation and internal communication are essential for any successful organization. Although communication within organizations has long been studied in the for-profit sector, we still know little about the impact of ...

• Network-Based Likelihood Modeling of Event Occurrences in Space and Time: A Case Study of Traffic Accidents in Dallas, Texas, USA 

  Acker, Benjamin; Yuan, May

  We propose a novel approach to network-based event likelihood modeling that estimates the probabilities of event occurrences on a network and identifies the influences of site and situation characteristics. Our premise is ...

• The Linkage Between Mental Health, Delinquency, and Trajectories of Delinquency: Results from the Boricua Youth Study 

  Jennings, W. G.; Maldonado-Molina, M.; Fenimore, D. M.; Piquero, Alex R.; Bird, H.; Canino, G.

  Purpose: To examine the longitudinal relationship between depression, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency among Hispanic children and adolescents. Methods: Propensity score matching is used to match depressed and ...

• Fiscal Effects of Municipal Annexation: Evidence from a Large National Sample of Urban Municipalities 

  Wang, J.; Gorina, Evgenia

  This paper examines the relationship between annexation and municipal finance and addresses a gap in the literature by studying the role of revenue structure and fiscal constraints. Using a large national sample of urban ...

• Overlapping Geographic Clusters of Food Security and Health: Where do Social Determinants and Health Outcomes Converge in the U.S.? 

  Leonard, T.; Hughes, A. E.; Donegan, Connor; Santillan, A.; Pruitt, S. L.

  We identified overlapping geographic clusters of food insecurity and health across U.S. counties to identify potential shared mechanisms for geographic disparities in health and food insecurity. By analyzing health variables ...

• The Determinants of Military Expenditure in Asia and Oceania, 1992-2016: A Dynamic Panel Analysis 

  Hou, Dongfang

  Using a dynamic panel approach, this article examines the determinants of military expenditures for 29 Asian and Oceanian countries during 1992-2016. A two-step difference-GMM estimator is applied. Both the impact of Chinese ...

• Guns or Money? Defense Co-Operation and Bilateral Lending as Coevolving Networks 

  Kinne, B. J.; Bunte, Jonas B.

  How are defense co-operation and economic co-operation related? To answer this question, this article analyzes the coevolution of defense co-operation agreements (DCAs) and government-to-government loans. It argues that ...

• Comparing Logging and Subsistence Values of Plants Across an Indigenous Peoples’ Influenced Landscape 

  Shah, Muna; Cummings, Anthony R.

  The ecosystem services derived from tropical plants sustain local societies and make significant contributions to the global economy. Often many types of ecosystem services are derived from a single plant species, introducing ...

• A Spatial-Filtering Zero-Inflated Approach to the Estimation of the Gravity Model of Trade 

  Metulini, Rodolfo; Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.

  Nonlinear estimation of the gravity model with Poisson-type regression methods has become popular for modelling international trade flows, because it permits a better accounting for zero flows and extreme values in the ...

• Creating Optimal Patrol Areas Using the P-Median Model 

  Wheeler, Andrew P.

  Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of the p-median model to construct optimal patrol areas. This can improve both time spent traveling to calls, as well as equalize call load between patrol areas. ...

• Changing the Relationship between Impulsivity and Antisocial Behavior: The Impact of a School Engagement Program 

  Cardwell, S. M.; Mazerolle, L.; Bennett, S.; Piquero, Alex R.

  This study examines the extent to which a third-party policing experiment designed to prevent truancy in disadvantaged adolescents is able to weaken the effect of impulsivity on self-reported antisocial behavior over time. ...

• Experiences Versus Perceptions: Do Students Agree That They Have Been Bullied? 

  Connell, Nadine M.; Schell-Busey, N. M.; Hernandez, Richard

  Each year, an estimated 30% of school children experience bullying by their classmates. While research has explored the prevalence of bullying, the causes of bullying, and the consequences of bullying, less attention has ...

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