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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 28.
Published in final edited form as: Homicide Stud. 2009 Jul 15;13(3):242–260. doi: 10.1177/1088767909336728

Table 1. Estimates of Log Homicide Rate 2002-2006.

2000 PREDICTORS Foreign Born Language Diversity


(1) (2) (3) (1) (2) (3)
Intercept 2.057 ***
(.099)
1.280 ***
(.129)
.710 ***
(.139)
2.411 ***
(.116)
1.595 ***
(.148)
.949 ***
(.164)
Socioeconomic Disadvantage .890 ***
(.055)
.563 ***
(.065)
.397 ***
(.064)
.725 ***
(.059)
.465 ***
(.065)
.333 ***
(.063)
Residential Stability .328 ***
(.053)
.275 ***
(.051)
.185 ***
(.048)
.291 ***
(.052)
.250 ***
(.050)
.173 ***
(.048)
Population Density
(a)
.252 *
(.117)
.269 *
(.112)
.216 *
(.104)
.286 *
(.112)
.282 **
(.108)
.235 *
(.101)
Log Homicide Rate 1995-1999 .302 ***
(.034)
.206 ***
(.032)
.283 ***
(.034)
.198 ***
(.032)
Percent Foreign Born -.001
(.003)
-.003
(.003)
-.001
(.003)
Language Diversity -1.268 ***
(.249)
-1.016 ***
(.242)
-.652 **
(.232)
Spatial Dependence
(Rho)
.372 ***
(.039)
.354 ***
(.040)

R-Square .322 .381 .458 .343 .393 .462
Akaike Info Criterion 2859 2778 2698 2833 2761 2690

Notes: Standard errors in parantheses. N = 836. Models 1 and 2 are estimated using OLS. Models 3 are estimated using ML. (a) Coefficients and SE are multiplied by 10000.

*

p<.05;

**

p<.01;

***

p<.001.