Sensitivity of test for overdispersion in poisson regression

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-176

  Xiang, Liming ^a,b   Lee, Andy H ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Overdispersion; Perturbations; Poisson regression; Score test

Indexed keywords

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

COUNT DATUM; DATA SET; DIAGNOSTIC MEASURES; OVERDISPERSION; PARAMETERS ESTIMATES; PERTURBATION; POISSON REGRESSION; SCORE TEST;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 17844396251     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200310096     Document Type: Article

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