Questions tagged [poisson]
Poisson is a discrete probability distribution in statistics that is popular in probabilistic modeling (including in Bayesian statistics) as well as business forecasting.
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Is there R functions that allow to test for overdispersion when fitting a model with survey design?
I realized I need to use the package survey to be able to include sample weights in my regression analysis. Initially, I wanted to use a negative binomial regression on each one of my outcomes as ...
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MLE for Poisson conditioned on multivariate Gaussian?
I am writing some Python code to fit 2D Gaussians to fluorescent emitters on a dark background to determine the subpixel-resolution (x, y) position of the fluorescent emitter. The crude, pixel-...
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Difficulty understanding the difference between Poisson, Quasi-Poisson, and Negative Binomial models
I will try to keep this short.
As an assignment for my GLM course, we were given a dataset on the # of homicide victims a person knows, as well as the race of the person. The main idea is to answer ...
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Finding threshold value for right-skewed data (bivariate)
Intuition of the Problem
Suppose you have a dataset of two columns, X and Y, and I plot them using a bar plot. The bar plot shows that there are a lot of values in the first two bars on the left, and ...
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regression by grouping the dependent variable
I have a large dataset exploring the effects of the independent variables on the dependent variable using Poisson regression since the dependent variable is a count variable.
However, the range of the ...
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How to implement large-scale Poisson Regression in Python
I am trying to implement a Poisson Regression in Python to predict rates. I am dealing with a ton of data (too much to store in a DataFrame), which means that using the standard statsmodels.api GLM ...
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Poisson distribution, Standard deviation, fitting line
Let's say I have system A, B, C, and D. Each system contains 10,000 numbers generated by Poisson distribution. The difference is the mean is different for different systems. I calculated the std dev ...
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Poisson model with overdisperssion
I'm working with a dataset $X$ (of length $N$) of count data, which looks like:
I developed a statistical model which can be improved, so I'm asking for any suggestions, for instance, differnet ...
