A new generalization of the negative binomial distribution

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 287-300

  Gupta, Ramesh C ^a   Ong, S H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Generalized gamma distribution; Generalized negative binomial distribution; Relative error; Wald test

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION (NBD);

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1142280372     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00301-8     Document Type: Article

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