The family of negative binomial distributions with fixed number of failures ( a . k . a . stopping-time parameter ) " r " is an exponential family.
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Because an estimate of the variance of " IP " is extremely difficult to estimate from the formula itself, LLyod suggested fitting a negative binomial distribution to the data.
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The gamma distribution is also used to model errors in multi-level Poisson regression models, because the combination of the Poisson distribution and a gamma distribution is a negative binomial distribution.
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Initial attempts to explain the spatial distribution of animals had been based on approaches like Bartlett s stochastic population models and the negative binomial distribution that could result from birth-death processes.
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In contrast, VGLMs offer a much richer set of models to handle overdispersion with respect to the Poisson, e . g ., the negative binomial distribution and several variants thereof.
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For example, given a Bayes network with a set of conditionally independent identically distributed Poisson-distributed nodes causes the conditional distribution of one node given the others to assume a negative binomial distribution.
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As these may be biased by small samples an alternative is the " U " statistic-the difference between the variance expected under the negative binomial distribution and that of the sample.
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Then we have a proper negative binomial distribution, which is a generalization of the Pascal distribution, which coincides with the Pascal distribution when " r " happens to be a positive integer.
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Bernoulli trials may also lead to negative binomial distributions ( which count the number of successes in a series of repeated Bernoulli trials until a specified number of failures are seen ), as well as various other distributions.
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The Poisson distribution, the negative binomial distribution, the Gamma distribution and the degenerate distribution are examples of infinitely divisible distributions; as are the normal distribution, Cauchy distribution and all other members of the stable distribution family.
