Firearm violence is a major public health crisis in the United States. Despite this, scientific research on firearm-related harms is not advanced, as spatially and temporally resolved data on firearm ownership are unavailable.
In their newly published work, our own Prof. Maurizio Porfiri and postdoctoral associate Roni Barak Ventura, in collaboration with Prof. Manuel Ruiz Marín of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, analyze two types of data – background checks per capita and suicides with a firearm in a given state. They create a spatiotemporal model that is utilized to predict trends in firearm prevalence on a state-by-state level.
Read a feature story on NYU Tandon News here.
Read a feature on Phys.org: here.
Read the full research paper “A spatiotemporal model of firearm ownership in the United States”, published in Patterns: here.
Read a feature story on NYU Tandon News here.
Read a feature on Phys.org: here.
Read the full research paper “A spatiotemporal model of firearm ownership in the United States”, published in Patterns: here.
Image credit: Roni Barak Ventura, Manuel Ruiz Marín and Maurizio Porfiri.