Fitting of Certain Contagious Distributions to Some Available Data by the Maximum Likelihood Method
- 28 February 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Biometrics
- Vol. 21 (1) , 34-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2528350
Abstract
The Neyman Type A, Negative Binomial, Poisson with zeros, Poisson and Poisson Binomial with n = 2, 3 were fitted to 35 observed distributions appearing in the literature by the method of maximum likelihood. The fitting methods are discussed and the chi-square goodness of fit is tabulated for all distributions. On the basis of these data, it appears that the Neyman Type A and Negative binomial both have wide applicability. The Poisson and Poisson with zeros gave a good fit to only a small portion of the data.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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