crimelinkage (version 0.0.4)

compareTemporal: Make temporal evidence variable from (possibly uncertain) temporal info

Description

Calculates the temporal distance between crimes

Usage

compareTemporal(DT1, DT2, show.pb = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

DT1

(n x 2) data.frame of (DT.FROM,DT.TO) for the crimes

DT2

(n x 2) data.frame of (DT.FROM,DT.TO) for the crimes

show.pb

(logical) show the progress bar

...

other arguments passed to expAbsDiff.circ

Value

data.frame of expected absolute differences:

• temporal - overall difference (in days) [0,max]
• tod - time of day difference (in hours) [0,12]
• dow - fractional day of week difference (in days) [0,3.5]