type="main" <title type="main">Objective</title> <p>To understand what kind of individuals lead particular regimes, this study examines the most influential people in politics, the executives, to uncover the relationship between their characteristics and the type of regime they govern. </section> <title type="main">Methods</title> <p>This article employs data...</p></p>

This research demonstrates the application of multiple data mining techniques to test theories of the macro-level causes of terrorism. The unique dataset is comprised of terrorist events and measures of social, political and economic contexts in 185 countries worldwide between the years 1970 and...

One often-noted difficulty in pre-election polling is the identification of likely voters. Our objective is to build a likely voter model for presidential elections that efficiently balances accuracy and number of questions used. We employ the Iterative Expert Data Mining technique and data from...

Web mining is moving the World Wide Web toward a more useful environment in which users can quickly and easily find the information they need. Web mining uses document content, hyperlink structure, and usage statistics to assist users in meeting their needed information. This book provides a...