Research Article
A Focused Bayesian Information Criterion
Table 1
Description of variables used for linear regression (Ehrlich [
44]).
| Label | Description |
| | Percentage of males aged 14–24 | | Indicator variable for a Southern state (South = 1 and others = 0) | | Mean years of schooling | | Police expenditure in 1960 | | Police expenditure in 1959 | | Labour force participation rate | | Number of males per 1000 females | | State population | | Number of nonwhites per 1000 people | | Unemployment rate of urban males 14–24 | | Unemployment rate of urban males 35–39 | | Gross domestic product per head | | Income inequality | | Probability of apprehension and imprisonment | | Average time served in state prisons (years) | | Rate of crimes in a particular category per head of population |
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