The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique Let Xi be the number of outcomes in class Ci,i=0,... ,k, during n independent possibly non-identical trials. If class C0 has ...
For binomial and Poisson distributions, the scale parameter has a value of 1. The variance of Y is for the binomial distribution and for the Poisson distribution. Overdispersion occurs when the ...
We examine the application of a Poisson common factor model for the projection of mortality jointly for females and males. The model structure is an extension of the classical Lee—Carter method in ...