A flexible distribution class for count data

Abstract The Poisson, geometric and Bernoulli distributions are special cases of a flexible count distribution, namely the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (CMP) distribution – a two-parameter generalization of the Poisson distribution that can accommodate data over- or under-dispersion. This work further gen...

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Main Authors: Kimberly F. Sellers, Andrew W. Swift, Kimberly S. Weems
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-09-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40488-017-0077-0