The book provides graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date survey of econometric and statistical techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on regression models. Specialised discrete data probability models are required in order to interpret results in terms of an...

Applied econometric research frequently encounters the difficulty that estimation of the parameters of interest is complex owing to the presence of incidental parameters. It is tempting therefore to try to circumvent the difficulties by proceeding in two stages. In the first, some estimates are...

Stute and Wang (1994) considered the problem of estimating the integral S[theta] = [integral operator] [theta] dF, based on a possibly censored sample from a distribution F, where [theta] is an F-integrable function. They proposed a Kaplan-Meier integral to approximate S[theta] and derived an...

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Poisson Distribution -- 1.1.1 Poisson as the "Law of Rare Events" -- 1.1.2 Poisson Process -- 1.1.3 Waiting Time Distributions --...