A bivariate zero-inflated count data regression model with unrestricted correlation

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-248

  Gurmu, Shiferaw ^a   Elder, John ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate counts; Health care utilization; Two factor model; Unrestricted correlation; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951809553     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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