Econometric Analysis of Count Data

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. General Introduction

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 1-7

3. Probability Models for Event Counts

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 9-52

4. Econometric Modeling — Basic Issues

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 53-88

5. Econometric Modeling — Extensions

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 89-125

6. Further Topics

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 127-143

7. Application to Labor Mobility

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 145-166

8. General Conclusions

   • Rainer Winkelmann

   Pages 167-169

9. Back Matter

   Pages 171-195

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This monograph deals with econometric models for the analysis of event counts. The interest of econometricians in this class of models has started in the mid-eighties. After more than one decade of intensive research, the litera­ ture has reached a level of maturity that calls for a systematic and accessible exposition of the main results and methods. Such an exposition is the aim of the book. Count data models have found their way into the curricula of micro-econometric classes and are available on standard computer software. The basic methods have been used in countless applications in fields such as labor economics, health economics, insurance economics, urban economics, and economic demography, to name but a few. Other, more recent, methods are poised to become standard tools soon. While the book is oriented towards the empirical economists and applied econometrician, it should be useful to statisticians and biometricians as well. A first edition of this book was published in 1994 under the title "Count Data Models - Econometric Theory and an Application to Labor Mobility" . While this edition keeps the character and broad organization of this first edition, and its emphasis on combining a summary of the existing literature with several new results and methods, it is substantially revised and enlarged. Many parts have been completely rewritten and several new sections have New sections include: count data models for dependent processes; been added.

• Conditional Distribution Models
• Count Data
• Count Variables
• Econometric Modeling
• calculus
• econometrics
• modeling
• probability

From the reviews:

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

"Winkleman has published numerous articles on using content models in economics and other social science journals. Because these are both applied and theoretical, he is well suited to write a monograph in this area. This book provides a very useful survey for anyone doing serious research using count data…for those who are doing substantive research using count data, [this book] will prove quite useful."

From the reviews of the fourth edition:

"The main objective of the book is to introduce count models at a graduate level so that these models can be used by students, researchers or interested practitioners. … For all researchers who are concerned with count data the book offers a very good introduction into this field of research and many examples and interpretations of the results. Therefore, the book provides an excellent starting point for working in this area of applied research." (Herbert S. Buscher, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1032 (7), 2004)

• Department of Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  Rainer Winkelmann

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