Often, economic policies are directed toward outcomes that are measured as counts. Examples of economic variables that use a basic counting scale are number of children as an indicator of fertility, number of doctor visits as an indicator of health care demand, and number of days absent from...

Often, economic policies are directed toward outcomes that are measured as counts. Examples of economic variables that use a basic counting scale are number of children as an indicator of fertility, number of doctor visits as an indicator of health care demand, and number of days absent from...

Multiple imputation of missing data continues to be a topic of considerable interest and importance to applied researchers. In this article, the ice package for multiple imputation by chained equations (also known as fully con- ditional specification) is further updated. Special attention is...

Here we develop an order k version of the zero-inflated logarithmic series distribution of Kumar and Riyaz [Staistica (accepted for publication), <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2013b</CitationRef>] through its probability generating function, and derive an expression for its probability mass function. Certain recurrence relation for its...</citationref>