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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Generalized Poisson Distribution
Last update: 23 October 2023
Software version identifier: 1.0, 1.1
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0, GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Functions to estimate the parameters of the generalized Poisson distribution with or without covariates using maximum likelihood. The references include Nikoloulopoulos A.K. & Karlis D. (2008). "On modeling count data: a comparison of some well-known discrete distributions". Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 78(3): 437–457, <doi:10.1080/10629360601010760> and Consul P.C. & Famoye F. (1992). "Generalized Poisson regression model". Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 21(1): 89–109, <doi:10.1080/03610929208830766>.
