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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Cordeiro, Gauss M.a | Rocha, Enivaldoa | Figueiredo, Dalsona | Fernandes, Antônioa | Ortega, Edwin M.M.b; * | Prataviera, Fábiob
Affiliations: [a] Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil | [b] University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Edwin M.M. Ortega, %****␣mas-15-mas200489_temp.tex␣Line␣25␣**** University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: The intentional killing of one human being by its own kind is considered the worst of the crimes. Therefore, homicide prevention is a major concern for policy makers in both developing and developed countries. We propose regression modeling for the homicide rates in Brazil along with appropriately chosen distributions for these responses that are in agreement with the restriction of values to the unit interval. We adopt the beta and simplex regression models with systematic components for the mean and dispersion parameters to explain the homicide rates in 27 state capitals of Brazil from the following explanatory variables: time, Gini coefficient, municipal human development index (MHDI), illiteracy and poverty rates. We employ standard likelihood techniques, perform influence and residual analysis and calculate goodness-of-fit statistics to select the best regression to explain homicides rates in these capitals. We perform the computations in the R package. The main results suggest the following: the mean homicide rate is increasing over time; there is a negative correlation between MHDI and murder rate; the poverty has a quite small negative impact on the mean homicide rates in the beta regression. The Gini coefficient and the illiteracy and poverty rates explain the dispersion of the homicide rates.
Keywords: Beta regression, homicide rate, maximum likelihood, simplex regression
DOI: 10.3233/MAS-200489
Journal: Model Assisted Statistics and Applications, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 215-224, 2020
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