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CHAPTER 9<br />

DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION<br />

9 .1 General summary<br />

Multivariate count data occur in different areas <strong>of</strong> science. Examples <strong>of</strong> count data can<br />

be found in agriculture (weed species counts in a field), in epidemiology (death count<br />

from a disease), in marketing (purchases <strong>of</strong> different products), in production (different<br />

types <strong>of</strong> faults in a production system), in criminology (different type <strong>of</strong> crimes in<br />

different areas), in accident <strong>analysis</strong> (different types or different time periods <strong>of</strong><br />

accidents), and many others. There are a variety <strong>of</strong> methods available to model the<br />

<strong>multivariate</strong> normal data and the <strong>multivariate</strong> categorical data. Multivariate count data<br />

has small counts with many zeros. There<strong>for</strong>e, a normal approximation may not be<br />

adequate. The different approaches can be used to handle the <strong>multivariate</strong> count data. In<br />

this study, several more attractive types <strong>of</strong> <strong>models</strong>, <strong>multivariate</strong> Poisson <strong>models</strong>, were<br />

used to overcome the above mentioned problem.<br />

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