Modelling heavy-tailed count data using a generalised Poisson-inverse Gaussian family

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1695-1703

  Zhu, Rong ^a   Joe, Harry ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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EID: 67649105383     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2009.04.011     Document Type: Article

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