Table 1 Temporal units
From: A comparison of methods for temporal analysis of aoristic crime
Notation | Temporal unit |
|---|---|
t start | The earliest time at which an offence could |
| Â | have occurred. |
t end | The latest time at which an offence could |
| Â | have occurred. |
t range | The period of time between tstart and tend. |
t mid | The time halfway between tstart and tend. |
t random | A random time between tstart and tend. |
t actual | The actual time at which an offence occurred |
| Â | (usually derived from CCTV). |
t known | The actual time at which an offence occurred |
| Â | if that time was known at the |
| Â | time the crime was reported to police. |
t estimate | The estimated time (between tstart and tend) |
| Â | that the offence occurred, as calculated by |
| Â | the various estimation methods. |