A Correction for an Underdispersed Event Count Probability Distribution
Rainer Winkelmann, Curtis Signorino, Gary King. 1995.
"A Correction for an Underdispersed Event Count Probability Distribution".
Political Analysis, Pp. 215–228.
Abstract
We demonstrate that the expected value and variance commonly given for a well-known probability distribution are incorrect. We also provide corrected versions and report changes in a computer program to account for the known practical uses of this distribution.
See Also
- [Paper] A Seemingly Unrelated Poisson Regression Model (1989)
- [Book] Demographic Forecasting (2008)
- [Paper] Event Count Models for International Relations: Generalizations and Applications (1989)
- [Paper] Presidential Appointments to the Supreme Court: Adding Systematic Explanation to Probabilistic Description (1987)
- [Paper] Statistical Models for Political Science Event Counts: Bias in Conventional Procedures and Evidence for The Exponential Poisson Regression Model (1988)
- [Paper] The Generalization in the Generalized Event Count Model, With Comments on Achen, Amato, and Londregan (1996)
- [Book] Unifying Political Methodology: The Likelihood Theory of Statistical Inference (1998)
- [Paper] Variance Specification in Event Count Models: From Restrictive Assumptions to a Generalized Estimator (1989)