Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate
We thank Golan and Rosenblatt (1) for their comments on our analysis (2), which we address in turn. First, Golan and Rosenblatt suggest that the time series may be nonstationary (that is, the distribution of the variables in the data may change over time). Our original paper addressed this concern i...
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| description | We thank Golan and Rosenblatt (1) for their comments on our analysis (2), which we address in turn. First, Golan and Rosenblatt suggest that the time series may be nonstationary (that is, the distribution of the variables in the data may change over time). Our original paper addressed this concern in two ways. First, we tested for stationarity using the standard Dickey Fuller test. The results (table S2 in ref. 2) supported the stationarity hypothesis. Second, we included year dummy variables to control for structural breaks. We chose years rather than political events for these dummy variables to avoid the arbitrariness inherent in the latter approach. Thus, nonstationarity is not a concern for our conclusions. Nevertheless, Golan … |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/669852022-09-28T09:50:43Z Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate Haushofer, Johannes Biletzki, Anat Kanwisher, Nancy Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT Kanwisher, Nancy Kanwisher, Nancy We thank Golan and Rosenblatt (1) for their comments on our analysis (2), which we address in turn. First, Golan and Rosenblatt suggest that the time series may be nonstationary (that is, the distribution of the variables in the data may change over time). Our original paper addressed this concern in two ways. First, we tested for stationarity using the standard Dickey Fuller test. The results (table S2 in ref. 2) supported the stationarity hypothesis. Second, we included year dummy variables to control for structural breaks. We chose years rather than political events for these dummy variables to avoid the arbitrariness inherent in the latter approach. Thus, nonstationarity is not a concern for our conclusions. Nevertheless, Golan … 2011-11-09T21:22:51Z 2011-11-09T21:22:51Z 2011-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1091-6490 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66985 Haushofer, J., A. Biletzki, and N. G. Kanwisher. “Reply to Golan and Rosenblatt: Revisiting the statistical analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict confirms that both sides retaliate.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (2011): E55-E56. ©2011 by the National Academy of Sciences. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-7885 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019420108 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) PNAS |
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| title | Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate |
| title_full | Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate |
| title_fullStr | Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate |
| title_short | Reply to Golan et al.: Revisiting the Statistical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Confirms That Both Sides Retaliate |
| title_sort | reply to golan et al revisiting the statistical analysis of the israeli palestinian conflict confirms that both sides retaliate |
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