Calibration tests for count data

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Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 787-805

  Wei, Wei ^a   Held, Leonhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calibration test; Count data; Predictive distribution; Proper scoring rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948385674     PISSN: 11330686     EISSN: 18638260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11749-014-0380-8     Document Type: Article

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