Negative Binomial Regression

This second edition of Hilbe's Negative Binomial Regression is a substantial enhancement to the popular first edition. The only text devoted entirely to the negative binomial model and its many variations, nearly every model discussed in the literature is addressed. The theoretical and distributional background of each model is discussed, together with examples of their construction, application, interpretation and evaluation. Complete Stata and R codes are provided throughout the text, with additional code (plus SAS), derivations and data provided on the book's website. Written for the practising researcher, the text begins with an examination of risk and rate ratios, and of the estimating algorithms used to model count data. The book then gives an in-depth analysis of Poisson regression and an evaluation of the meaning and nature of overdispersion, followed by a comprehensive analysis of the negative binomial distribution and of its parameterizations into various models for evaluating count data.

Joseph M. Hilbe is a Solar System Ambassador with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at California Institute of Technology, an Adjunct Professor of statistics at Arizona State University, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Hawaii. Professor Hilbe is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), for which he is the founding Chair of the ISI astrostatistics committee and Network. He is the author of Logistic Regression Models, a Leading text on the subject, co-author of R for Stata Users (with R. Muenchen), and of both Generalized Estimating Equations and Generalized Linear Models and Extensions (with J. Hardin).