Monitoring homicide trends paper published

My paper, Monitoring Volatile Homicide Trends Across U.S. Cities (with coauthor Tom Kovandzic) has just been published online in Homicide Studies. Unfortunately, Homicide Studies does not give me a link to share a free PDF like other publishers, but you can either grab the pre-print on SSRN or always just email me for a copy of the paper.

They made me convert all of the charts to grey scale :(. Here is an example of the funnel chart for homicide rates in 2015.

And here are example fan charts I generated for a few different cities.

As always if you have feedback or suggestions let me know! I posted all of the code to replicate the analysis at this link. The prediction intervals can definately be improved both in coverage and in making their length smaller, so I hope to see other researchers tackling this as well.

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