Negative Binomial Regression (Hardcover, 2 Revised edition)

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The concept of risk; 3. Overview of count response models; 4. Methods of estimation and assessment; 5. Assessment of count models; 6. Poisson regression; 7. Overdispersion; 8. Negative binomial regression; 9. Negative binomial regression: modeling; 10. Alternative variance parameterizations; 11. Problems with zero counts; 12. Censored and truncated count models; 13. Handling endogeneity and latent class models; 14. Count panel models; 15. Bayesian negative binomial models; Appendix A. Constructing and interpreting interactions; Appendix B. Data sets and Stata files; References; Index.