Abstract:
An attempt to understand the nature of crime in the state and city of New York has been made through this project. We often hear that crime rate is higher in cities. It was verified through this project that the overall crime rate as well as the rate of violent crime was more in NYC compared to the rest of the state. A trend analysis of crime in the city of New York was done and it was concluded that the crime rate has declined between 1990 and 2016. Also a statistical model has been fit for predicting the crime rate using very basic predictors. With only 3 predictors a test R-Square value of 78.7% was obtained.