Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32084 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Darmstadt Discussion Papers in Economics No. 157
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Department of Law and Economics, Darmstadt
Abstract: 
We study the applicability of the pattern recognition methodology rough set data analysis (RSDA) in the field of meta analysis. We give a summary of the mathematical and statistical background and then proceed to an application of the theory to a meta analysis of empirical studies dealing with the deterrent effect introduced by Becker and Ehrlich. Results are compared with a previously devised meta regression analysis. We find that the RSDA can be used to discover information overlooked by other methods, to preprocess the data for further studying and to strengthen results previously found by other methods.
Subjects: 
rough data set
RSDA
meta analysis
data mining
pattern recognition
deterrence
criminometrics
JEL: 
K14
K42
C49
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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