Weighted Poisson distributions for overdispersion and underdispersion situations

Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 567-585

  Del Castillo, Joan ^a   Pérez Casany, Marta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dispersion index; Exponential family; Scoring method; Stochastic order relations; Weighted version

Indexed keywords

EID: 7844234042     PISSN: 00203157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003585714207     Document Type: Article

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