Extended generalized linear models: Simultaneous estimation of flexible link and variance functions

Stata Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 501-516

  Basu, Anirban ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; EEE; Estimating equations; GLM; Link functions; pglm; pglmpredict; Skewed; st0092; Variance functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646524326     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0500500402     Document Type: Article

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