Generalized poisson models arising from Markov processes

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-212

  Bosch, Ronald J ^a   Ryan, Louise M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth process; Differential equations; Overdispersion; Underdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032528730     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00028-5     Document Type: Article

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