Score Tests for Extra-Zero Models in Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial Models

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 92-108

  Jansakul, N ^a   Hinde, John P ^b  

^a PRINCE OF SONGKLA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Count data; Overdispersion; Score test; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COUNT DATUM; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; OVERDISPERSION; SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION; SCORE TEST; SCORE TEST STATISTIC; SHOOT PROPAGATION; ZERO-INFLATION;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 55449083966     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610910802421632     Document Type: Article

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