| iraq_terrorism {stelfi} | R Documentation |
Terrorism in Iraq, 2013 - 2017
Description
A dataset containing information of terrorism activity carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Iraq, 2013 - 2017.
Format
A simple features dataframe, of type POINT, with 4208 observations and 16 fields:
- iyear
numeric year 2013–2017
- imonth
numeric month index 1–12
- iday
numeric day 1–31 (zeros are a non-entry)
- country
country (IRAQ)
- latitude
latitude location
- longitude
longitude location
- utm_x
x-coord location UTM
- utm_y
y-coord location UTM
- success
logical, was fatal?
TRUE= fatal- nkill
number of fatalities per attack
- specificity
spatial accuracy of event: 1 = most accurate, 5 = worst
- gname
character name of attack perpetrators (ISIL)
- x_coord
x coordinate from location projected onto a sphere
- y_coord
y coordinate from location projected onto a sphere
- z_coord
z coordinate from location projected onto a sphere
- popdensity
scaled: number of people per kilometer squared
- luminosity
scaled: luminosity
- tt
scaled: time to nearest city in minutes
Source
https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/