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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Negative Binomial Dispersion Parameter for Highly Overdispersed Data, with Applications to Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: The negative binomial distribution is used commonly throughout biology as a model for overdispersed count data, with attention focused on the negative binomial dispersion parameter, k. A substantial literature exists on the estimation of k, but most attention has focused on datasets that...
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Public Library of Science
2007
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1791715/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17299582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000180 |