Discussion of ``Estimating the historical and future probabilities of large terrorist events by Aaron Clauset and Ryan Woodard

DOI10.1214/13-AOAS614CzbMath1454.62151arXiv1401.2303OpenAlexW30251207MaRDI QIDQ5971203

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Publication date: 28 March 2014

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2303

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Nonparametric statistical resampling methods (62G09) History, political science (91F10)

Uses Software

• bootstrap
• plfit

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