Modeling count data with excess zeroes: An empirical application to traffic accidents

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 90-116

  Chin, Hoong Chor ^a   Quddus, Mohammed Abdul ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Negative binomial regression; Poisson regression; Traffic accidents; Zero inflated models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042572095     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124103253459     Document Type: Article

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