Machine learning and conflict prediction: A use case

Stability

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Perry, Chris ^a  

^a International Peace Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict prevention; Data science; Early warning; Machine learning; Predictive analytics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946714323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21652627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/sta.cr     Document Type: Article

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