Early detection of terrorism outbreaks using prospective space-time scan statistics

Professional Geographer

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 676-691

  Gao, Peng ^a   Guo, Diansheng ^a   Liao, Ke ^b   Webb, Jennifer J ^c   Cutter, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Prospective space time scan statistics; Terrorism analysis

Indexed keywords

SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRORISM; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890154514     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.724348     Document Type: Article

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