For binomial and Poisson distributions, the scale parameter has a value of 1. The variance of Y is for the binomial distribution and for the Poisson distribution. Overdispersion occurs when the ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 54, No. 4 (2005), pp. 721-737 (17 pages) The paper discusses the estimation of an unknown population size n. Suppose that ...
The focus of this article is on the nature of the likelihood associated with N-mixture models for repeated count data. It is shown that the infinite sum embedded in the likelihood associated with the ...