Quasi-Likelihood Methods for Count Data

Handbook of Applied Econometrics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 321-368

  Wooldridge, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional topics; Conditional expectations; Exogenous upper bounds; Fixed effects methods; Likelihood based estimators; Methods; Motivationa; Poisson QMLE; Pooled Poisson estimation; Random effects methods; Specifying models; Univariate analysis; Unobserved effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044960363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631216339.1999.00009.x     Document Type: Chapter

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