[R] negative binomial: expected number of events?

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

Re: [R] negative binomial: expected number of events?

Hi, This page should answer your questions. 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

Re: [R] negative binomial: expected number of events?

Hi, The wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_binomial also does a great job of explaining the negative binomial distribution. -- Ritwik Sinha Graduate Student Epidemiology and Biostatistics Case Western Reserve University http://darwin.cwru.edu/~rsinha [[alternative