Generalized poisson distribution: The property of mixture of poisson and comparison with negative binomial distribution

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-229

  Joe, Harry ^a   Zhu, Rong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Overdispersion; Poisson mixture; Skewness; Zero inflated distribution

Indexed keywords

COUNT DATUM; MIXTURE OF POISSON DISTRIBUTIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; OVERDISPERSION; POISSON BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; POISSON MIXTURES; PROPERTY; SKEWNESS; ZERO-INFLATED; ZERO-INFLATED DISTRIBUTION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 17844371726     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410102     Document Type: Article

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