Bradlow, Eric; Fader, Peter; Adrian, Moshe; McShane, Blake - 2012
The widespread popularity and use of both the Poisson and negative binomial models for count data arises, in part, from … thought to be infeasible. In particular, we introduce here a generalized model for count data based upon an assumed Weibull … (Weibull versus exponential), (b) model both over and under dispersed count data, (c) allow covariates to be introduced …