Dependence of the Firearm-Related Homicide Rate on Gun Availability: A Mathematical Analysis

Dominik Wodarz; Natalia L. Komarova

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071606

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Dependence of the Firearm-Related Homicide Rate on Gun Availability: A Mathematical Analysis

Dominik Wodarz ,

* E-mail: dwodarz@uci.edu

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
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Natalia L. Komarova

Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America
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Dependence of the Firearm-Related Homicide Rate on Gun Availability: A Mathematical Analysis

Dominik Wodarz,
Natalia L. Komarova

Published: July 26, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071606

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Consideration of the work of Kates and Mauser

Posted by dabbott on 28 Aug 2013 at 22:40 GMT

It would be of interest if any follow up of this paper could discuss the data presented in the works of Kates and Mauser. See for example:

http://www.law.harvard.ed...

Competing interests declared: I was the Editor of this paper.

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Consideration of the work of Kates and Mauser

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