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

DOI10.1080/10629360601010760zbMath1136.62017MaRDI QIDQ81685

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

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

tables; model selection; overdispersion; Gini index; Kullback-Leibler distance; negative binomial; Mahalanobis distance; zero inflation; generalized Poisson; Poisson inverse Gaussian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics

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