Truncated Poisson Regression for Time Series of Counts

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A series of counts \(y_t\), \(t=1,2,\dots\), is considered such that the conditional distribution of \(y_t\) given the history of the process \(\mathfrak F_{t-1}\) is \[ f(y_t |{\mathfrak F}_{t-1})=\lambda_t^{y_t}/y_t!\psi(\lambda_t),\quad y_t\in\{c_1,\dots,c_2\}, \] where \(\psi(\lambda)=\sum_{x=c_1}^{c_2}\lambda^x/x!\) (this distribution is called doubly truncated Poisson distribution). It is assumed that \(\lambda_t=\exp(\beta^T z_{t-1})\), where \(\beta\) is an unknown parameter vector, and \(z_{t-1}\) is an \(\mathfrak F_{t-1}\) measurable predictor vector that can include past values of \(y\) and covariates. The author considers a partial maximum likelihood estimator of \(\beta\) and derives it's asymptotic normality. The likelihood ratio, the Wald, and the partial score statistics are proposed to test a general linear hypothesis about \(\beta\). It is shown that the distributions of all these statistics are asymptotically chi-square under the null hypothesis. Simulation results and analysis of poliomyelitis data (USA 1970-1983) are presented.











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