Growth Estimators and Confidence Intervals for the Mean of Negative Binomial Random Variables with Unknown Dispersion

The negative binomial distribution becomes highly skewed under extreme dispersion. Even at moderately large sample sizes, the sample mean exhibits a heavy right tail. The standard normal approximation often does not provide adequate inferences about the data's expected value in this setting. In...

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Main Authors: David Shilane, Derek Bean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/602940
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