Citation

Bissell AF. Biometrika 1972; 59(2): 435-441.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1972, Biometrika Trust, Publisher Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/biomet/59.2.435

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Compound Poisson distributions are generally associated with counts of discrete events on sample elements of uniform size. The case of variable element sizes, applicable to many compound distributions, is considered here for the particular case of the negative binomial model. Maximum likelihood and weighted least squares estimators for its parameters are presented, with examples.