Analysis of long-tailed count data by poisson mixtures

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 557-573

  Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Ong, S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Data fitting; Empirical modeling; Generalizations of the gamma; Mixing distribution; Over dispersion; Tail length and behavior

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

DATA FITTING; EMPIRICAL MODELING; GENERALIZATIONS OF THE GAMMA; MIXING DISTRIBUTIONS; OVER DISPERSION; TAIL LENGTH AND BEHAVIOR;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 17044421755     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-200052144     Document Type: Article

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