Expected Values and Standard Deviations of the Reciprocal of a Variable from a Decapitated Negative Binomial Distribution

Authors :: Paul R. Rider
Source :: Journal of the American Statistical Association. 57:439-445
Publication Year :: 1962
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 1962.
Abstract: Tables are given of the expected value of 1/X, the expected value of 1/X 2, and the standard deviation of 1/X, where X is a variable following a negative binomial distribution whose zero class is lacking.

Subjects :: Statistics and Probability
Binomial distribution
Beta negative binomial distribution
Taylor's law
Beta-binomial distribution
Statistics
Negative binomial distribution
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Binomial proportion confidence interval
Negative multinomial distribution
Mathematics
Count data

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