Delaporte

Statistical Functions for the Delaporte Distribution

Last update: 2 October 2023

Software version identifier: 8.1.0, 0.1-1, 0.1-2, 1.0-0, 1.0-1, 1.1-0, 2.0-0, 2.0-1, 2.1-0, 2.1-1, 2.2-0, 2.2-1, 2.2-2, 2.2-3, 2.3.0, 2.3.1, 3.0.0, 4.0.0, 4.0.3, 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.5, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.1.1, 8.2.0, 8.3.0

Source code repository: https://github.com/cran/Delaporte

Copyright license: 2-clause BSD License, File License

Description

Provides probability mass, distribution, quantile, random-variate generation, and method-of-moments parameter-estimation functions for the Delaporte distribution with parameterization based on Vose (2008) <isbn:9780470512845>. The Delaporte is a discrete probability distribution which can be considered the convolution of a negative binomial distribution with a Poisson distribution. Alternatively, it can be considered a counting distribution with both Poisson and negative binomial components. It has been studied in actuarial science as a frequency distribution which has more variability than the Poisson, but less than the negative binomial.