Functional forms for the negative binomial model for count data

Economics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 585-590

  Greene, William ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Encompassing model; Heterogeneity; Negative binomial; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849112975     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.10.015     Document Type: Article

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