Testing the homogeneity of the means of several groups of count data in the presence of unequal dispersions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3305-3313

  Saha, Krishna K ^a   Bilisoly, Roger ^a  

^a CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL TOXICITY STUDIES; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; MEAN VARIANCES; NEGATIVE BINOMIALS; OVERDISPERSION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; POISSON DATUM; POISSON MODELS; QUASI LIKELIHOODS; SIMPLE METHODS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SIZE EFFECTS; STATISTIC-BASED; TREATMENT GROUPS;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; STATISTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 64749109751     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2009.01.019     Document Type: Article

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