Families of Discrete Distributions Satisfying Taylor's Power Law
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Biometrics
- Vol. 43 (3) , 693-699
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2532005
Abstract
Constrained negative binomial, Neyman type A, Polya-Aeppli, and Poisson-with-zeroes distributions are shown to satisfy Perry and Taylor''s requirements regarding Taylor''s power law when fitted with n + 2 parameters to a set of n samples of data.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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