Characterizing Additively Closed Discrete Models by a Property of their Maximum Likelihood Estimators, with an Application to Generalized Hermite Distributions

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 98, Issue 463, 2003, Pages 687-692

  Puig, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Count data; Hermite distribution; Nonregular models; Overdispersion; Poisson normal distribution; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242427466     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214503000000594     Document Type: Article

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