Corrigendum to Against All Odds, Femicide Did Not Increase During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Six Spanish-Speaking Countries

Abstract

The article uses threshold models —as developed by Bruce (2008, 2012) and adapted by Maldonado-Guzmán et al. (2020)— to measure whether the number of femicides recorded in each country in 2020 differed significantly from the average number recorded from 2017 to 2019. However, due to a misinterpretation of the formula proposed by Maldonado-Guzmán et al. (2020), there is a mistake in the estimation of the Z-scores. Concretely, the formula applied in the article is based on the weighted standard deviation and includes the year 2020, when it should have been based on the standard deviation and exclude that year. Consequently, the last two paragraphs of the section Data Analysis (pages 626-627) should read as follows: