A note on Dean's overdispersion test

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3675-3678

  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; Exponential family; Overdispersion; Poisson model; Score test

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649998512     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.04.019     Document Type: Article

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