A simple approach to fit the beta-binomial model

Stata Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 385-394

  Guimarães, Paulo ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta binomial; Dirichlet multinomial; Fixed effects negative binomial; Overdispersion; St0089

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646497479     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0500500307     Document Type: Article

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