Analysis of zero-adjusted count data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 207-218

  Gupta, Pushpa L ^a   Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Tripathi, Ram C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure rate; Generalized Poisson distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Relative error

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLES AND ZEROS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

FAILURE RATES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POISSON ERROR DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE ERROR; SURVIVAL FUNCTION;

DATA REDUCTION;

ERROR; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; ZERO ADJUSTED MODEL;

EID: 0030409519     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(96)00032-1     Document Type: Article

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