Tuesday, May 5, 2015 (4:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Overdispersion of Regression Models
Speaker: Feng Jin (Case Western Reserve University)
Advisor: Danhong Song (Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: Overdispersion in Poisson models occurs when the response variance is greater than the mean.
It may cause standard errors of the estimates to be deflated or underestimated. In this presentation, the data set contains information on smoking behavior and other variables for...