Controlling for overdispersion in grouped conditional logit models: A computationally simple application of Dirichlet-multinomial regression

Econometrics Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 439-452

  Guimarães, Paulo ^a   Lindrooth, Richard C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional logit; Dirichlet multinomial; Hospital Choice; Overdispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347394740     PISSN: 13684221     EISSN: 1368423X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-423X.2007.00215.x     Document Type: Article

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