Count Data Models Applied to the Number of Household Members
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This working paper tries to model the number of members living ¡n a household by applying Count Data Models, Poisson and Negative Binomial distributions basically. The main idea is to model the expected value of number of a certain household depending on a set of explanatory variables. The sample is from Ecuador, so the results only apply for this specific country. However, this paper gives some ideas about what factors affect the number of members in a household.
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