A score test for overdispersion in Poisson regression based on the generalized Poisson-2 model

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1514-1521

  Yang, Zhao ^a   Hardin, James W ^b   Addy, Cheryl L ^b  

^a IQVIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; Generalized Poisson; Over dispersion; Poisson model; Score test

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749172258     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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