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Modeling Local-Scale Violent Crime Rate: A Comparison of Eigenvector Spatial Filtering Models and Conventional Spatial Regression Models

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Pages 312-321 | Received 10 Jul 2020, Accepted 15 Sep 2020, Published online: 29 Jan 2021

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