An Empirical Comparison of Maximum Likelihood and Moment Estimators of Parameters in a Zero-inflated Poisson Model
Author(s) -
G. Nanjundan,
A. Loganathan,
T. Raveendra Naika
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mapana journal of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0975-3303
DOI - 10.12723/mjs.15.7
Subject(s) - estimator , poisson distribution , moment (physics) , maximum likelihood , context (archaeology) , zero (linguistics) , mathematics , statistics , econometrics , zero inflated model , m estimator , poisson regression , physics , geography , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , classical mechanics , population , demography , sociology
The zero-inflated Poisson model is discussed in the context of a real life situation. The moment estimators of the parameters in the model are obtained and they are compared with the respective maximum likelihood estimators through simulation.
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