Connections of the Poisson weight function to overdispersion and underdispersion

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1287-1296

  Kokonendji, Célestin C ^a   Mizère, Dominique ^b   Balakrishnan, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale Faculté des Sciences de la Santé University Marien Ngouabi   (Congo)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

COM Poisson distribution; Dual distribution; Logconcavity; Logconvexity; Natural exponential family; Overdispersion; Poisson distribution; Size biased Poisson distribution; Underdispersion; Weighted Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149047491     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.05.028     Document Type: Article

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