On the statistical properties and tail risk of violent conflicts

Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 452, issue C, 29-45

Abstract: We examine statistical pictures of violent conflicts over the last 2000 years, providing techniques for dealing with the unreliability of historical data.

Keywords: Fat-tails; Power laws; Tail risk; Bounded support; War casualties; Infinite mean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2016.01.050

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