Self-exciting point process models of civilian deaths in Iraq

Security Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 244-264

  Lewis, Erik ^a   Mohler, George ^b   Brantingham, P Jeffrey ^a   Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

density estimation; modeling violence; point process; rational choice theory; routine activity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864873797     PISSN: 09551662     EISSN: 17434645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/sj.2011.21     Document Type: Article

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