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\href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Database}{Global
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Terrorism Database (GTD)}
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"is a database of incidents of terrorism
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from 1970 onward". Through 2015, this
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database contains information on 141,966
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from 1970 onward". Through 2020, this
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database contains information on 209,706
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incidents.
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\code{terrorism} provides a few summary
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\code{incidents.byCountryYr} and
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\code{nkill.byCountryYr} are matrices giving
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the numbers of incidents and numbers of deaths
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by year and by location of the event for 206
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by year and by location of the event for 204
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countries (rows) and for all years between
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1970 and 2016 (columns) except for 1993, for
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1970 and 2060 (columns) except for 1993, for
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which the entries are all NA, because the raw
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data previously collected was lost (though
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the total for that year is available in
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containing the following:
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\describe{
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\item{year}{integer year, 1970:2016.}
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\item{year}{integer year, 1970:2020.}
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\item{methodology}{
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an \code{\link{ordered}} factor giving the
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methodology / organization responsible for
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partial years are ignored, so
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\code{methodology} = \code{CEDIS} for
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1998:2007, \code{ISVG} for 2008:2011, and
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\code{START} for 2012:2014.
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\code{START} for more recent data.
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}
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\item{method}{
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a character vector consisting of
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NOTE:
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\code{sum(terrorism[["incidents"]])} =
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146920 = 141966 in the GTD database
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214660 = 209706 in the GTD database
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plus 4954 for 1993, for which the
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incident-level data were lost.
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}
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and in the US, according to the World
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Bank; see "Sources" below. This World
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Bank data set includes \code{USdeathRate}
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for each year from 1900 to 2014.
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for each year from 1900 to 2020.
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The \code{worldDeathRate} numbers here were
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read manually from a plot on
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\href{https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN?end=2014&start=1960&view=chart}{that web page,}
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except for the the number for 2015, which was
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estimated as a reduction of 0.73 percent from
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2014, which was the average rate of decline
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(ratio of two successive years) for 1990 to
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2014. The same method was used to estimate
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the \code{USdeathRate} for 2015 as the same
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as for 2014.
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NOTE: \code{USdeathRate} is to two
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significant digits only, unlike
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\code{worldDeathRate}, which has four
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significant digits.
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NOTE: \code{USdeathRate} to 2009 is to
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two significant digits only. Other death
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rates carry more significant digits.
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}
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\item{worldDeaths, USdeaths}{
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number of deaths by year in the world and
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terrorism deaths per million
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population worldwide and in the US =
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\code{0.001 * nkill / worldPopulation}
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\code{nkill / (0.001*worldPopulation)}
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\code{nkill.us / (0.001*USpopulation)}
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}
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\item{pkill, pkill.us}{
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terrorism deaths as a proportion of
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it suggests larger problems.
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\source{
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National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). (2017). Global Terrorism Database [Data file]. Retrieved from \url{https://start.umd.edu/gtd} [accessed 2018-04-08].
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National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). (2017). Global Terrorism Database [Data file]. Retrieved from \url{https://start.umd.edu/gtd} [accessed 2022-10-08].
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See also the \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Terrorism_Database}{Global Terrorism Database} maintained by the \href{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Consortium_for_the_Study_of_Terrorism_and_Responses_to_Terrorism}{National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism} (START, 2015), \url{https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd}.
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The world and US population figures came from
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"Total Population - Both Sexes", World Population
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Prospects 2015, published by the Population Division
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of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of
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the United Nations accessed 2016-09-05 (at a web link
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that has since changed: No longer at
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\code{https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Download/Standard/Population}, as it was when the data current used here was
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downloaded, 2016-09-05. Fortunately, as of
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2020-02-09, such data seem to be available at
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\url{https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/}.
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"Total Population - Both Sexes", \href{https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/Population/}{World Population Prospects 2022}, published by the Population Division, World Population Prospects, of
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the United Nations, accessed 2022-10-09.
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\href{https://www.mortality.org}{Human Mortality Database. University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany).}
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\href{https://www.mortality.org}{Human Mortality Database. University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany)}, accessed 2022-10-11.
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}
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\references{
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Robert Pape, Keven Ruby, Vincent Bauer and
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Gentry Jenkins, \href{https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/11/how-to-fix-the-flaws-in-the-global-terrorism-database-and-why-it-matters/}{"How to fix
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the flaws in the Global Terrorism Database
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and why it matters"},
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Gentry Jenkins, \href{https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/08/11/how-to-fix-the-flaws-in-the-global-terrorism-database-and-why-it-matters/}{"How to fix the flaws in the Global Terrorism Database and why it matters"},
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\emph{The Washington Post}, August 11,
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2014 (accessed 2016-01-09).
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}

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