A functional approach to estimation of the parameters of generalized negative binomial and gamma distributions

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-99447-5_30MaRDI QIDQ5005576zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrey Gorshenin, V. Yu. Korolev

Publication date 10 August 2021

Published in Developments in Language Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10582

zbMATH Keywords

estimation of parametersgeneralized gamma distributionsgeneralized negative binomial distributionsmixed probability modelsoptimization problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Networks and circuits as models of computation; circuit complexity (68Q06) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10)

Abstract: The generalized negative binomial distribution (GNB) is a new flexible family of discrete distributions that are mixed Poisson laws with the mixing generalized gamma (GG) distributions. This family of discrete distributions is very wide and embraces Poisson distributions, negative binomial distributions, Sichel distributions, Weibull--Poisson distributions and many other types of distributions supplying descriptive statistics with many flexible models. These distributions seem to be very promising for the statistical description of many real phenomena. GG distributions are widely applied in signal and image processing and other practical problems. The statistical estimation of the parameters of GNB and GG distributions is quite complicated. To find estimates, the methods of moments or maximum likelihood can be used as well as two-stage grid EM-algorithms. The paper presents a methodology based on the search for the best distribution using the minimization of $el{l}^p$-distances and $L^p$-metrics for GNB and GG distributions, respectively. This approach, first, allows to obtain parameter estimates without using grid methods and solving systems of nonlinear equations and, second, yields not point estimates as the methods of moments or maximum likelihood do, but the estimate for the density function. In other words, within this approach the set of decisions is not a Euclidean space, but a functional space.

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