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STRATA 2014 – Record Linkage and Other Statistical Models for Quantifying Conflict Casualties in Syria

February 13, 2014

How do we know how many people have been killed in Syria? The hard answer is we don’t. In this talk, presented at Strata, Megan Price addresses how HRDAG uses random forests, multiple systems estimation, and various Python and R packages to estimate conflict casualties.

STRATA
February 13, 2014
Santa Clara, California
Link to 10-minute talk on youtube

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Date:: February 13, 2014
Event Categories:: Human Rights, Syria
Website:: http://strataconf.com/strata2014/public/schedule/detail/33754

Organizer

: STRATA – O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Phone:: (707) 827-7019
Website:: http://conferences.oreilly.com/strata/

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Santa Clara Convention Center; 5001 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054 United States + Google Map
Website:: santaclara.org/conventioncenter

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