Mixed Poisson regression models with covariate dependent rates

Biometrics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 381-400

  Wang, Peiming ^a   Puterman, Martin L ^b   Cockburn, Iain ^b   Le, Nhu ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Count data; EM algorithm; Epilepsy; Mixture models; Overdispersion; Poisson regression; Residual analysis

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

COUNT DATUM; COVARIATES; EM ALGORITHMS; EPILEPSY; MIXTURE MODELING; OVERDISPERSION; POISSON MIXTURES; POISSON REGRESSION; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; RESIDUALS ANALYSIS;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029938342     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2532881     Document Type: Article

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