A deeper look at interstate war data: Interstate War Data version 1.1

• Published in: Research & politics Vol. 3; no. 4
• Main Authors: Reiter, Dan, Stam, Allan C., Horowitz, Michael C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.10.2016; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Data; Datasets; Errors; War; data; War; casualties

This paper accomplishes two related goals. Firstly, it presents version 1.1 of the Interstate War Data (IWD) data set. IWD is a data set of all interstate wars, using Correlates of War (COW) rules but improving on COW by repairing the high number of coding errors in COW and more accurately and preci...