Clauset, Aaron; Young, Maxwell; Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 51 (2007) 1, pp. 58-87
In the spirit of Lewis Richardson’s original study of the statistics of deadly conflicts, we study the frequency and severity of terrorist attacks worldwide since 1968. We show that these events are uniformly characterized by the phenomenon of “scale invariance,†that is, the...
