Estimates from a Random Item Response Model of External Territorial Threat, 1816-2010
Source:R/data-others.R
terrthreat.Rd
This is a state-year data set on (latent) estimates of external territorial threat. Data correspond with a publication in Journal of Global Security Studies.
Format
A data frame with 14781 observations on the following 10 variables.
ccode
a Correlates of War state code
year
a Gleditsch-Ward state code
lterrthreat
an estimate of latent external territorial threat for the state in a given year
sd
the standard deviation of simulated, latent external territorial threat
lwr
a lower bound estimate of simulated, latent external territorial threat
upr
an upper bound estimate of simulated, latent external territorial threat
m_lterrthreat
another estimate of latent external territorial threat for the state in a given year
m_sd
another standard deviation of simulated, latent external territorial threat
m_lwr
another lower bound estimate of simulated, latent external territorial threat
m_upr
another upper bound estimate of simulated, latent external territorial threat
Details
The variables with the prefix of m_
communicate alternate estimates in
which the state-year-level estimate of territorial threat derived from dyadic
data is weighted by the minimum distance between pairs of states. The
pertinent variables without this prefix communicate what I (the author!)
treat as the standard measure of latent, external territorial threat in which
the estimates derived from the dyadic data are weighted by capital distance.
You can see the clear corollaries to other functions and data in this package,
like the kind used in add_minimum_distance()
and add_capital_distance()
.
The lower and upper bounds communicate 90% intervals.