native_american {poweRlaw}

Casualties in the American Indian Wars (1776 and 1890)

Description

These data files contain the observed casualties in the American Indian Wars. The data sets native_american and us_american contain the casualties on the Native American and US American sides respectively. Each data set is a data frame, with two columns: the number of casualties and the conflict date.

Format

Data frame

Source

Friedman, Jeffrey A. "Using Power Laws to Estimate Conflict Size." The Journal of conflict resolution (2014).