Contagion in mass killings and school shootings

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Towers, Sherry ^a   Gomez Lievano, Andres ^a   Khan, Maryam ^b   Mubayi, Anuj ^a,b   Castillo Chavez, Carlos ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; FIREARM; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; IMITATION; MASS DISASTER; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; TRENDS;

FIREARMS; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SCHOOLS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84940100241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117259     Document Type: Article

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