A Rapid and Efficient Estimation Procedure for the Negative Binomial Distribution

DOI10.1002/bimj.4710290718zbMath0718.62050OpenAlexW2126084266MaRDI QIDQ5750124

Adrienne W. Kemp, C. David Kemp

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Biometrical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.4710290718

zbMATH Keywords

maximum likelihoodnegative binomial distributionmethod of momentsmoment estimationnoniterative estimationfirst moment equationweighted-mean estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10)

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Sampling from the generalized logarithmic series distribution ⋮ The exact distribution of the maximum, minimum and the range of multinomial/Dirichlet and multivariate hypergeometric frequencies ⋮ New algorithms for generating Poisson variates ⋮ Existence and uniqueness of the maximum likelihood estimator for the two- parameter negative binomial distribution ⋮ Estimating parameters for discrete distributions via the empirical probability generating function

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