An empirical model for underdispersed count data

Statistical Modeling

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 77-89

  Ridout, Martin S ^a   Besbeas, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clutch size; exponential weighting; linnet; Poisson process; polyspermy; weighted Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993728830     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1471082X04st064oa     Document Type: Article

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