Power series distribution sand zero-inflated models
Abstract
There are two main objectives in this project. First, to construct Power Series Distributions
and obtain their properties. Specically, to express the Power Series Distributions
in explicit form, in recursive form (in Katz recursive form), special function
form (in terms of Confluent and Gauss hypergeometric functions), expectation form
(in terms of probability generating functions)
Secondly, to generalize Power Series Distributions by introducing an inflated parameter.
Specifically,
(i) To construct an inflated Poisson, Binomial, Negative Binomial and Logarithmic
distributions.
(ii) To obtain the moments and the maximum likelihood estimators of the zero inflated
power series distributions.
(iii) To obtain Compound Poisson distributions for the inflated power series distributions.
(iv) Application of the inflated models described above to migration data
Publisher
University of Nairobi