Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series D (The Statistician) · 1985 · 76 citations · 13 references
Natural SciencesComputer ScienceMathematicsProbability TheoryStatistical ComputingStatisticsComputational StatisticsLikelihood EstimationMaximum Likelihood EstimationProbabilistic ModelingProbability DistributionsStatistical InferenceMaximum Likelihood EstimatorMaximum Likelihood InferenceNegative Binomial DistributionNegative Binomial Models
This note sketches a biological context for the negative binomial distribu- tion, gives some of the many equivalent mathematical notations that have been used for the negative binomial probabilities, and discusses the use of the computer program MLP (the Maximum Likelihood Program) for fitting negative binomial distributions to data.
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