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Original Article

The importance of distribution-choice in modeling substance use data: a comparison of negative binomial, beta binomial, and zero-inflated distributions

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Pages 489-497 | Received 17 Sep 2014, Accepted 16 May 2015, Published online: 08 Jul 2015

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