February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
9h 55m
English
This appendix provides a brief survey of common models for count data and their stochastic properties. In particular, we discuss dispersion properties and types of generating functions, the latter being useful tools when analyzing count models. The presented models are divided into univariate and multivariate models, and into models for an infinite range like
or a finite range like
.
The most famous model for a count random variable having the range
(full set of non-negative integers) is the Poisson distribution.