Quantifying the Wild West
The Problematic Statistics of Frontier Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4883930 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert R Dykstra (University at Albany, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 321-347 |
| Publication date | 2009-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/whq/40.3.321 |
| OpenAlex | W2565769191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Was frontier violence as pervasive as traditionally depicted? Historians are divided. Although FBI-type homicide rates support the high-violence school, a “small-numbers fallacy” continues to bedevil proponents. Consolidating venues offers promise, confidence intervals do not. Some scholarly consensus might help wrest the portrayal of western lethality from those with much imagination but limited grounding in history.
Charter · Economic history · Frontier · Library science · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Archaeology and Natural History · Computer Science · Demography · History · Law · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,41 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |