Outlier identification and robust parameter estimation in a zero-inflated Poisson model

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 421-430

  Yang, Jun ^a   Xie, Min ^b   Goh, Thong Ngee ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Outlier identification; Robust estimation; Trimmed mean; Winsorized mean; Zero inflated Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650072455     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760903456426     Document Type: Article

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