This is a package, documentation, and replication repository for the paper "Measuring the Landscape of Civil War," Journal of Peace Research, February 15, 2018
The Paper:
Measuring the Landscape of Civil War - Read the Paper
Measuring the Landscape of Civil War - Read the Online Appendix
The Authors:
Dr. Rex W. Douglass(University of California San Diego)
Dr. Kristen Harkness(University of St. Andrews)
All of the files necessary for reproducing our analysis are including in a self contained R package "MeasuringLandscape." You can install the package MeasuringLandscapeCivilWar from github with the instructions below:
if(!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rexdouglass/MeasuringLandscape")
The analysis and figures in the paper and statistical appendix are produced in a number of R Notebooks.
NOTE: Several parts of this analysis are stochastic, specific coefficient estimates and p-values will vary with each execution. Substantive results will be consistent across runs. We encourage the reader to run the replication multiple times and observe the variation.
File Preparation:
Fuzzy Matcher: A supervised learning pipeline for matching two placenames to one another even when they are spelled slightly differently.
Georeferencer: A supervised learning pipeline for assigning a real-world coordinate to a placename.
Analysis: Main analysis of the paper.
11 So What: Demonstrate that different georeferencing decisions will produce different results in a simple linear regression model in terms of both statistical significance and substantive effects.
12 Kenya Events with Suggested Codings: Release the event dataset with a single georeferencing based on the ensemble method.
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