Data-Driven Decisions That Allocate Resources, Predict Criminal Activity, and Support

question 38

Multiple Choice

Data-driven decisions that allocate resources, predict criminal activity, and support officers in their technical decisions are known as

• A)meta analyses.
• B)crime analyses.
• C)incident investigations.
• D)SARA analyses.

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Definitions:

Denseness

A measure of the compactness or crowding of objects within a given area or volume.

Slope

The measure of the steepness or inclination of a line, often describing the rate of change between two variables.

Simple Linear Regression

A statistical method that allows us to summarize and study relationships between two continuous (quantitative) variables.

Standard Error

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a sampling distribution.