Greene, William - In: Foundations and Trends(R) in Econometrics 1 (2007) 2, pp. 113-218
This study presents several extensions of the most familiar models for count data, the Poisson and negative binomial models. We develop an encompassing model for two well-known variants of the negative binomial model (the NB1 and NB2 forms). We then analyze some alternative approaches to the...