Multilevel zero-inflated negative binomial regression modeling for over-dispersed count data with extra zeros

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1193-1202

  Moghimbeigi, Abbas ^a   Eshraghian, Mohammed Reza ^a   Mohammad, Kazem ^a   Mcardle, Brian ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Count data; EM algorithm; Multilevel; Negative binomial regression; Poisson regression; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 50349098273     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802273203     Document Type: Article

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