An application of compound Poisson modelling to biological dosimetry

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 467, Issue 2127, 2011, Pages 897-910

  Puig, Pedro ^a   Barquinero, Joan Francesc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Count data; Dicentric; Hermite distribution; Non standard conditions; Overdispersion; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COUNT DATA; DICENTRIC; HERMITE DISTRIBUTION; NON-STANDARD CONDITIONS; OVERDISPERSION; ZERO INFLATION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79952333722     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0384     Document Type: Article

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