Second-order biases of maximum likelihood estimates in overdispersed generalized linear models

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 269-280

  Cordeiro, Gauss M ^a   Botter, Denise A ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Exponential family; Generalized linear model; Link function; Maximum likelihood estimate; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041407321     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(01)00150-X     Document Type: Article

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