Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Generalized Poisson
Distribution
Description
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, and Consul P.C. & Famoye F. (1992). "Generalized Poisson regression model". Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 21(1): 89--109, .