This paper deals with statistical methods for modelling individual behavior when the
endogenous variable is a nonnegative integer. Examples are the number of children, the …

" Introduction God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.-Kronecker. This book is
concerned with models of event counts. An event count refers to the number of times an …

This Set Contains: Continuous Multivariate Distributions, Volume 1, Models and
Applications, 2nd Edition by Samuel Kotz, N. Balakrishnan and Normal L. Johnson …

The “count data”? eld has further? ourished since the previous edition of this book was
published in 2003. The development of new methods has not slowed down by any means …

In many economic contexts the dependent or response variable of interest (y) is a
nonnegative integer or count which we wish to explain or analyze in terms of a set of …

In some financial studies the dependent variable is a count, taking nonnegative integer
values. Examples include the number of takeover bids received by a target firm, the number …

A controversial issue in the literature on banking regulation is whether there is contagion
risk, or not. This paper derives a framework to test for contagion risk and applies it to a data …

The benchmark model for count data is the Poisson distribution, and the standard statistical
procedure for analyzing count data is Poisson regression. However, highly restrictive …

This book presents statistical methods for the analysis of events. The primary focus is on
single equation cross section models. The book addresses both the methodology and the …

Abstract Using data from 1959–1998, this studyexamines the impact of legislativetelevision
(C-SPAN2) on the number offilibusters in the United States Senate. As previous work has …