INFORMATICS ABOUT FEAR TO REPORT RAPES USING BUMPED-UP POISSON MODEL | Science Publications

American Journal of Biostatistics

Ramalingam Shanmugam¹ 

关键词: Prevalence;    Conditional Probability;    Likelihood;    Odds Ratio;   

DOI  :  10.3844/amjbsp.2013.17.29

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Science Publications

【 摘 要 】

The rape victims are frightened to report with a fear of retaliation or humiliation. Consequently, the number of reported rapes is under-estimated. How should the number of unreported rapes be identified is discussed in this article. For this purpose, the Poisson distribution is modified and it is named Bumped-up Poisson distribution in this article. Related probability-informatics are derived to estimate the unreported rapes and proportion fearing to report. A hypothesis testing procedure is developed to assess the significance of an estimated proportion fearing. Our approach is tried with the reported rapes during the years 2007 and 2008 in a random sample of nations in all the continents. Proximities among the nations are identified in rape incidences.

【 授权许可】

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