McShane, Blake; Adrian, Moshe; Bradlow, Eric T; Fader, … - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 26 (2008), pp. 369-378
The widespread popularity and use of both the Poisson and the negative binomial models for count data arise, in part, from their derivation as the number of arrivals in a given time period assuming exponentially distributed interarrival times (without and with heterogeneity in the underlying...