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Modeling overdispersion with the Normalized Tempered Stable distribution

Kolossiatis, Michalis, Griffin, Jim E., Steel, Mark F.J. (2011) Modeling overdispersion with the Normalized Tempered Stable distribution. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55 (7). pp. 2288-2301. ISSN 0167-9473. (doi:10.1016/j.csda.2011.01.016) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:29590)

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Abstract

A multivariate distribution which generalizes the Dirichlet distribution is introduced and its use for modeling overdispersion in count data is discussed. The distribution is constructed by normalizing a vector of independent tempered stable random variables. General formulae for all moments and cross-moments of the distribution are derived and they are found to have similar forms to those for the Dirichlet distribution. The univariate version of the distribution can be used as a mixing distribution for the success probability of a binomial distribution to define an alternative to the well-studied beta-binomial distribution. Examples of fitting this model to simulated and real data are presented.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.csda.2011.01.016
Uncontrolled keywords: Distribution on the unit simplex; Mouse fetal mortality; Mixed binomial; Normalized random measure; Overdispersion
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA276 Mathematical statistics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: Jim Griffin
Date Deposited: 30 May 2012 09:55 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29590 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Kolossiatis, Michalis.

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Griffin, Jim E..

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