Estimating the number of visits to the doctor

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-224

  Berzel, Andreas ^a   Heller, Gillian Z ^b   Zucchini, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian National Health Survey; Generalized linear models; Negative binomial; Overdispersed counts; Poisson; Smoothing splines; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745295443     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.00435.x     Document Type: Article

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