Modeling analysis of armed conflict risk in sub-Saharan Africa, 2000–2019
Xiaolan Xie,
Dong Jiang,
Mengmeng Hao
et al.
Abstract:Sub-Saharan Africa has suffered frequent outbreaks of armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Although several efforts have been made to understand the underlying causes of armed conflict and establish an early warning mechanism, there is still a lack of a comprehensive assessment approach to model the incidence risk of armed conflict well. Based on a large database of armed conflict events and related spatial datasets covering the period 2000–2019, this study uses a boosted regression tree (BRT) approac… Show more
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