In many agricultural and biological contexts, the response variable is a nonnegative integer value which we wish to explain or analyze in terms of a set of covariates. Unlike the Gaussian linear model, the response variable is discrete with a distribution that places probability mass at natural numbers only. The Poisson regression is the standard model for count data. However, assumptions of this model forces the equality between mean and variance, which may be implausible in many applications. Motivated by experimental data sets, this work intended to develop more realistic methods for the analysis of count data. We proposed a novel parametrization of the COM-Poisson distribution and explored the regression models based on it. We extended ...