PLoS One. 2021 Mar 30;16(3):e0248437. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248437. eCollection 2021.
ABSTRACT
Gun violence and mass shootings are high-profile epidemiological issues facing the United States with questions regarding their contagiousness gaining prevalence in news media. Through the use of nonparametric Hawkes processes, we examine the evidence for the existence of contagiousness within a catalog of mass shootings and highlight the broader benefits of using such nonparametric point process models in modeling the occurrence of such events.
PMID:33784326 | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0248437
