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Re: Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available?

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Post by convivialdingo » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 7:52 PM UTC

I read a well done statistical analysis on state-by-state gun ownership correlation.

You might find some of the data sources listed valuable.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/06/guns-and-states/

Re: Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 23, 2016, 11:12 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available?

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Post by jdc0589 » Fri, Jun 24, 2016, 3:11 PM UTC

vs2370 wrote: post #8

jdc0589 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what do you mean by "training data"?

in machine learning we could use some supervised technique if we have training data instead of unsupervised. sorry for not being clear

what I thought, just making sure.

Re: Ask HN: Is gun purchase data available?

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Post by jdc0589 » Fri, Jun 24, 2016, 3:12 PM UTC

danielvf wrote: post #12

To get a first approximation on this, assume everyone in the US has access to a gun, then take a look at the FBI's yearly extended homicide tables, which breaks down US homicides by demographic factors, (and means of death) The first, obvious conclusion from FBI data is that a group making up approximately 4% of the US population commits about half the US homicides, mostly against others in that group, and the other…

you can't just take the well behaved subset of the US population and then compare it to an other country on the whole. Thats ridiculous.

You would need to do the same segmentation of the English population, and compare like segments.