Patrón en las escaladas en la actividad insurgente y terrorista

Neil Johnson1, Spencer Carran, Joel Botner

  • 1Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 2, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

El momento del ataque fatal puede predecirse analizando las diferencias de tiempo entre los eventos letales. Este patrón ayuda a estimar las tasas de escalada para las actividades de grupos insurgentes y terroristas.

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