On 13/11/2013 09:38, Mark Payne wrote:
Dear R-help,
The negative binomial distribution has several different
parameterisations, but I can't seem to figure out what the exact one
used in mgcv's negbin family is? negbin() requires a theta argument,
but its not clear anywhere in the documentation (that I can find), how
this parameter should be interpreted - for example, can it be less
than 1?
I believe it is the same as MASS (the package) explained in MASS (the
book). As its help says ....
Best wishes,
MArk
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