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Richardson's deadly quarrels
The empirical distribution of 779 conflicts by magnitude, the log10 of the death toll. The median quarrel killed about ten thousand people.

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Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import { GeomLine, GGPlot, Labs, ThemeClassic } from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { deadlyQuarrels } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot data={deadlyQuarrels} aes={{ x: "magnitude" }} width={640} height={400}>
<ThemeClassic />
<Labs
title="How deadly was the average quarrel?"
subtitle="779 pairs of belligerents, 1807 to 1949, by Richardson's log10 death toll"
x="Magnitude (log10 killed)"
y="Share of quarrels at or below"
/>
<GeomLine stat="ecdf" curve="step-hv" linewidth={1.8} pad={true} />
</GGPlot>
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