New findings from terrorism data: Dirichlet process random-effects models for latent groups

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 701-721

  Kyung, Minjung ^a   Gill, Jeff ^a   Casella, George ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical studies of terrorism; Generalized linear mixed models; Gibbs sampling; Hastings algorithm; Hierarchical models; Logistic regression; Metropolis; Terrorists

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053421145     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2011.00768.x     Document Type: Article

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