Mixed Poisson distributions

International Statistical Review

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-58

  Karlis, Dimitris ^a   Xekalaki, Evdokia ^a,b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Discrete distributions; Distribution theory; Mixing distribution; Mixtures; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044422638     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2005.tb00250.x     Document Type: Article

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