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Volume 12 Number 4: pp. 736-747



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Modeling underdispersed count data with generalized Poisson regression

Tammy Harris
Institute for Families in Society
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
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Zhao Yang
Quintiles, Inc.
Morrisville, NC
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James W. Hardin
Institute for Families in Society
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC
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Abstract.  We present motivation and new Stata commands for modeling count data. While the focus of this article is on modeling data with underdispersion, the new command for fitting generalized Poisson regression models is also suitable as an alternative to negative binomial regression for overdispersed data.
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