Hierarchical Poisson Regression Modeling

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 438, 1997, Pages 618-632

  Christiansen, Cindy L ^a   Morris, Carl N ^b  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjusted density method; Approximate Bayes methods; Empirical Bayes; Poisson regression interactive multilevel modeling; Restricted maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031496077     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474013     Document Type: Article

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