While the Poisson distribution is a classical statistical model for count data, the distributional model hinges on the constraining property that its mean equal its variance. This text instead introduces the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution and motivates its use in developing flexible...

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of figures and tables; 1 Job quality in an era of flexibility: introduction; 2 Job quality in Europe; 3 Deregulation, job security and employability during the Great Recession: a multilevel analysis; 4...