Testing for overdispersion in a censored Poisson regression model

Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 533-543

  Jung, Byoung Cheol ^a   Jhun, Myoungshic ^b   Song, Seuck Heun ^b  

^a University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Censored count data; Negative binomial; Poisson regression model; Score test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751520480     PISSN: 02331888     EISSN: 10294910     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02331880601012884     Document Type: Article

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