Poisson Regression Tutorial/Book

[jimjohn]

can someone plz recommend a good book (easy to understand) where I can learn how to conduct Poisson Regression? I understand the Poisson distribution, but I've never learned how I can do regression with it. Thanks!

[SR Millis-3]

I'd recommend:
 
Hardin, J. W., & Hilbe, J. M. (2007). Generalized linear models and extensions (2nd ed.). College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
 
Hilbe, J. M. (2007). Negative binomial regression. New York: Cambridge University Press.

The Poisson distribution assumes the equality of its mean and variance---something that is rarely found in real data.  Data are often Poisson overdispersed, ie, variance > mean.  Negative binomial regression is a standard method to model overdispersed Poisson data.

 
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can someone plz recommend a good book (easy to understand) where I can learn
how to conduct Poisson Regression? I understand the Poisson distribution,
but I've never learned how I can do regression with it. Thanks!
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[Arthur Burke]

Dave Atkins has a nice article that includes links to SPSS code for the
examples...

Atkins, D. C., & Gallop, R. J. (2007). Re-thinking how family
researchers model infrequent outcomes: A tutorial on count regression
and zero-inflated models. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 726-735.

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can someone plz recommend a good book (easy to understand) where I can
learn how to conduct Poisson Regression? I understand the Poisson
distribution, but I've never learned how I can do regression with it.
Thanks!
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