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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NegativeBinomialDistribution.html Ritwik Sinha http://darwin.cwru.edu On 6/5/06, Werner Tell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I'm fitting poisson and negative binomial distributions to event data. I'm > interested in the expected number of events occuring in a time period. For > the poisson this is determined by the parameter lambda only. > For the neg. binomial, is the expected number of events determined by the > parameter "mu" only or does parameter "size" influence the first moment as > well? > > thank you, > wt > > _________________________________________________________________ > Die MSN Homepage liefert Ihnen alle Infos zu Ihren Lieblingsthemen. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
