The size of under-reporting bias in recorded transnational terrorist activity

Konstantinos Drakos

Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2007, vol. 170, issue 4, pages 909-921

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. Copyright 2007 Royal Statistical Society.

Date: 2007

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