Negative score test statistic

American Statistician

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 285-288

  Morgan, B J T ^a   Palmer, K J ^b   Ridout, M S ^b  

^a Department of Statistics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Stillbirths in litters; Zero inflated poisson distribution; Zero modified poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649001549     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313007X242972     Document Type: Article

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