Models for zero-inflated count data using the Neyman type A distribution

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-80

  Dobbie, Melissa ^a   Welsh, Alan ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contagious distributions; covariate adjustment; Neyman type A distribution; non nested hypothesis; parameterization; zero inflated counts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993660144     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0100100106     Document Type: Article

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