Analysis of patent data—a mixed-poisson-regression-model approach

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-41

  Wang, Peiming ^a   Cockburn, Lain M ^b   Puterman, Martin L ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; EM algorithm; Innovation; Mixture models; Monte Carlo; Overdispersion; R and D

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032341252     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.1998.10524732     Document Type: Article

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