On modeling count data: A comparison of some well-known discrete distributions

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 437-457

  Nikoloulopoulos, Aristidis K ^a   Karlis, Dimitris ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Generalized Poisson; Kullback Leibler distance; Mahalanobis distance; Model selection; Negative binomial; Overdispersion; Poisson inverse Gaussian; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749110693     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10629360601010760     Document Type: Article

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