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physics.soc-ph2006★ 341 cited
On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Events
Aaron Clauset, Maxwell Young, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
In the spirit of Richardson's original (1948) study of the statistics of deadly conflicts, we study the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks worldwide since 1968. We show th…
physics.soc-ph2005★ 29 cited
Scale Invariance in Global Terrorism
Aaron Clauset, Maxwell Young
Traditional analyses of international terrorism have not sought to explain the emergence of rare but extremely severe events. Using the tools of extremal statistics to analyze the…