Two ways of modelling overdispersion in non-normal data

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

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 591-598

  Lee, Y ^b   Nelder, J A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Hierarchical generalized linear models; Model checking; Overdispersion; Quasi likelihood model; Random effect model; Robust residual

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354347     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00214     Document Type: Article

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