Citation

Drakos K. J. R .Stat. Soc. Ser. A Stat. Soc. 2007; 170(4): 909-921.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain), Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00488.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

We address an apparent gap in the applied terrorism literature providing an estimate for the size of under-reporting in transnational terrorist activity. The method that is suggested is computationally straightforward and takes into account the stochastic interactions between terrorism, polity and press freedom in a manner that utilizes their sample properties. The outcome from the application of this metric is that underreporting bias is indeed present and quite sizable.