TY  - JOUR
AU  - Shanmugam, Ramalingam 
PY  - 2013
TI  - Informatics About Fear to Report Rapes Using Bumped-Up Poisson Model
JF  - Current Research in Biostatistics
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
DO  - 10.3844/amjbsp.2013.17.29
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/amjbsp.2013.17.29
AB  - 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.