SPACE AND CIRCULAR TIME LOG GAUSSIAN COX PROCESSES WITH APPLICATION TO CRIME EVENT DATA

摘要

We view the locations and times of a collection of crime events as a space-time point pattern. Then, with either a nonhomogeneous Poisson process or with a more general Cox process, we need to specify a space-time intensity. For the latter, we need a random intensity which we model as a realization of a spatio-temporal log Gaussian process. Importantly, we view time as circular not linear, necessitating valid separable and nonseparable covariance functions over a bounded spatial region crossed with circular time. In addition, crimes are classified by crime type. Furthermore, each crime event is recorded by day of the year, which we convert to day of the week marks.