A bivariate zero-inflated negative binomial regression model for count data with excess zeros

Economics Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 373-378

  Wang, Peiming ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bivariate negative binomial distribution; Correlation; Count data with excess zeros; EM algorithm; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037357182     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(02)00262-8     Document Type: Article

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