Re: [R-sig-eco] Randomly Stopped Sum Model

2018-10-11 Thread Mollie Brooks
Hi George, I’m not familiar with the method in that paper, but I know that "a Tweedie distribution is equivalent to the distribution obtained by summing a Poisson number of gamma random variables" (Foster & Bravington 2013) and there are a few methods available in R for estimating the Tweedie

[R-sig-eco] Randomly Stopped Sum Model

2018-10-11 Thread Glen,George
Hi all, I found this paper online (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4226152), which discusses a method to model the sum of continuous random variables over a number of events where the number of events is also a random variable. I was wondering if anyone knew of specific examples u