Predicting suicide attacks integrating spatial, temporal, and social features of terrorist attack targets
As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial fea...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA
RAND
[2013], 2013
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| Series: | Rand Corporation monograph series
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | As part of an exploration of ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, RAND conducted a proof-of-principle analysis of whether adding sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic factors would enhance the predictive ability of a methodology that focused on geospatial features. This test case focused on terrorist bombing incidents in Israel, but the findings indicate that the methodology merits further exploration |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 0833078038 9780833078001 0833078003 0833078011 083307802X |