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Detecting the contagion effect in mass killings; a constructive example of the statistical advantages of unbinned likelihood methods

BACKGROUND: When attempting to statistically distinguish between a null and an alternative hypothesis, many researchers in the life and social sciences turn to binned statistical analysis methods, or methods that are simply based on the moments of a distribution (such as the mean, and variance). The...

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Autores principales: Towers, Sherry, Mubayi, Anuj, Castillo-Chavez, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5942819/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29742115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196863