On the use of corrections for overdispersion

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 553-561

  Lindsey, J K ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Beta binomial distribution; Direct likelihood inference; Negative binomial distribution; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033473798     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00171     Document Type: Article

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