Confidence Regions for Parameters of Negative Binomial Distribution

2016/12/23 by Emmanuel Nkingi, Nkingi, Emmanuel, Jan Vrbik +1
Mathematics · #Advanced Statistical Methods and Models #FOS: Mathematics #Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #Statistics Theory (math.ST)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.08113

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Abstract

We describe a general method for the construction of a confidence region for the two parameters of the Negative Binomial Distribution. This is achieved by expanding the sampling distribution of Method-of-Moments estimators, using the Central Limit Theorem.

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