On modeling count data: a comparison of some well-known discrete distributions

DOI10.1080/10629360601010760zbMath1136.62017OpenAlexW2130413745MaRDI QIDQ81685

Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos, Dimitris Karlis, Aristidis K. Nikoloulopoulos, Dimitris Karlis

Publication date: March 2008

Published in: Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10629360601010760

zbMATH Keywords

tablesmodel selectionoverdispersionGini indexKullback-Leibler distancenegative binomialMahalanobis distancezero inflationgeneralized PoissonPoisson inverse Gaussian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15)

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