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SUBMITTER: Fujita K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5691154 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20171116 1
The Syrian armed conflict has been ongoing since 2011 and has already caused thousands of deaths. The analysis of death tolls helps to understand the dynamics of the conflict and to better allocate resources and aid to the affected areas. In this article, we use information on the daily number of deaths to study temporal and spatial correlations in the data, and exploit this information to forecast events of deaths. We found that the number of violent deaths per day in Syria varies more widely t ...[more]