Assessing the contagiousness of mass shootings with nonparametric Hawkes processes

Gun violence and mass shootings are high-profile epidemiological issues facing the United States with questions regarding their contagiousness gaining prevalence in news media. Through the use of nonparametric Hawkes processes, we examine the evidence for the existence of contagiousness within a cat...

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Autores principales: Boyd, Peter, Molyneux, James
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33784326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248437
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description Gun violence and mass shootings are high-profile epidemiological issues facing the United States with questions regarding their contagiousness gaining prevalence in news media. Through the use of nonparametric Hawkes processes, we examine the evidence for the existence of contagiousness within a catalog of mass shootings and highlight the broader benefits of using such nonparametric point process models in modeling the occurrence of such events.
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spelling pubmed-80094182021-04-07 Assessing the contagiousness of mass shootings with nonparametric Hawkes processes Boyd, Peter Molyneux, James PLoS One Research Article Gun violence and mass shootings are high-profile epidemiological issues facing the United States with questions regarding their contagiousness gaining prevalence in news media. Through the use of nonparametric Hawkes processes, we examine the evidence for the existence of contagiousness within a catalog of mass shootings and highlight the broader benefits of using such nonparametric point process models in modeling the occurrence of such events. Public Library of Science 2021-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8009418/ /pubmed/33784326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248437 Text en © 2021 Boyd, Molyneux http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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