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