Time Series Analysis of a Contagious Process
传染性事件过程的时间序列分析
Between 1968 and 1972 there were 326 attempts to hijack aircraft worldwide, including 137 attempts in the United States. Those attempts were often attributed to imitation of previous hijacking incidents, and aircraft hijacking, like many other types of behavior, was described as a “contagious” phenomenon. In this article a general mathematical model is developed for serial dependence of rates at which events occur and is applied to data on the hijacking attempts in the U.S.…