Comparing classification trees to discern patterns of terrorism*

• Main Authors: Saiya, Nilay, Scime, Anthony
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences; Terrorism; Classification Trees
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145738
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Though applied widely in the fields of medicine, finance, ecology, psychology, and computer science, machine learning algorithmic-based methods are a relatively novel approach to social scientific analysis that have yet to be extensively applied. Yet as we argue in this article, a specific form of algor...