Table 2
Effects of life expectancy (“cause deleted” with respect to death from homicide), income, and income inequality on homicide rates of neighbourhoods in Chicago 1988-93: results of stepwise multiple regression predicting homicide rate of neighbourhoods from the other four variables in table 1
| ß | t | P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Variables in final equation | |||
| Life expectancy of males | −0.74 | −9.25 | <0.0001 |
| Robin Hood index | 0.19 | 2.34 | 0.02 |
| Variables not in final equation | |||
| Life expectancy of females | −0.19 | −1.43 | 0.16 |
| Median household income | 0.12 | 1.11 | 0.27 |
