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Bayesian Learning of Play Styles in Multiplayer Video Games
Aline Normoyle, Shane T. Jensen
The complexity of game play in online multiplayer games has generated strong interest in modeling the different play styles or strategies used by players for success. We develop a…
Community Vibrancy and its Relationship with Safety in Philadelphia
Wichinpong Park Sinchaisri, Shane T. Jensen
To what extent can the strength of a local urban community impact neighborhood safety? We construct measures of community vibrancy based on a unique dataset of block party permit a…
The Effects of Vacant Lot Greening and the Impact of Land Use and Business Presence on Crime
Jesse Cui, Shane T. Jensen, John Macdonald
We examine the effect of the Philadelphia LandCare (PLC) vacant lot greening initiative on crime and the extent to which surrounding land uses and business types moderate this inte…
Crime in Philadelphia: Bayesian Clustering with Particle Optimization
Cecilia Balocchi, Sameer K. Deshpande, Edward I. George +1
Accurate estimation of the change in crime over time is a critical first step towards better understanding of public safety in large urban environments. Bayesian hierarchical model…
Spatial Modeling of Trends in Crime over Time in Philadelphia
Cecilia Balocchi, Shane T. Jensen
Understanding the relationship between change in crime over time and the geography of urban areas is an important problem for urban planning. Accurate estimation of changing crime…
Tree-Structured Boosting: Connections Between Gradient Boosted Stumps and Full Decision Trees
José Marcio Luna, Eric Eaton, Lyle H. Ungar +7
Additive models, such as produced by gradient boosting, and full interaction models, such as classification and regression trees (CART), are widely used algorithms that have been i…