Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Phila. getting software to predict who might kill / Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 Nov 2006

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16104571.htm
Michael Matza
"University of Pennsylvania criminologist Richard Berk, a trained statistician, never met a data set he didn't like. Now, using fresh data from the Philadelphia probation department, Berk and three colleagues have built an innovative model for predicting which troublemakers already in the system are most likely to kill or attempt a killing."