Re: [R] When modeling with negbin from the aod package...

2009-10-14 Thread Ben Bolker
alexander russell gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > When modeling with negbin from the aod package, parameters for a given count > > y | lambda~Poisson(lambda) > > with lambda following a Gamma distribution Gamma(r, theta) > > are estimated. > The intercept is called phi. > Some other parameters m

[R] When modeling with negbin from the aod package...

2009-10-14 Thread alexander russell
Hi, When modeling with negbin from the aod package, parameters for a given count y | lambda~Poisson(lambda) with lambda following a Gamma distribution Gamma(r, theta) are estimated. The intercept is called phi. Some other parameters may be also be estimated from factors in the data: the estimate