Overdispersion and poisson regression

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-284

  Berk, Richard ^a   MacDonald, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; Negative binomial distribution; Overdispersion; Poisson regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249154272     PISSN: 07484518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10940-008-9048-4     Document Type: Article

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