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Autologistic models for benchmark risk or vulnerability assessment of urban terrorism outcomes.


ABSTRACT: We develop a quantitative methodology to characterize vulnerability among 132 U.S. urban centers ('cities') to terrorist events, applying a place-based vulnerability index to a database of terrorist incidents and related human casualties. A centered autologistic regression model is employed to relate urban vulnerability to terrorist outcomes and also to adjust for autocorrelation in the geospatial data. Risk-analytic 'benchmark' techniques are then incorporated into the modeling framework, wherein levels of high and low urban vulnerability to terrorism are identified. This new, translational adaptation of the risk-benchmark approach, including its ability to account for geospatial autocorrelation, is seen to operate quite flexibly in this socio-geographic setting.

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5994772 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Autologistic models for benchmark risk or vulnerability assessment of urban terrorism outcomes.

Liu Jingyu J   Piegorsch Walter W WW   Schissler A Grant AG   Cutter Susan L SL  

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, (Statistics in Society) 20171010 3


We develop a quantitative methodology to characterize vulnerability among 132 U.S. urban centers ('cities') to terrorist events, applying a place-based vulnerability index to a database of terrorist incidents and related human casualties. A centered autologistic regression model is employed to relate urban vulnerability to terrorist outcomes and also to adjust for autocorrelation in the geospatial data. Risk-analytic 'benchmark' techniques are then incorporated into the modeling framework, where  ...[more]

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