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  2. Relationships among probability distributions - Wikipedia

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    If X 1 and X 2 are Poisson random variables with means μ 1 and μ 2 respectively, then X 1 + X 2 is a Poisson random variable with mean μ 1 + μ 2. The sum of gamma (α i, β) random variables has a gamma (Σα i, β) distribution. If X 1 is a Cauchy (μ 1, σ 1) random variable and X 2 is a Cauchy (μ 2, σ 2), then X 1 + X 2 is a Cauchy (μ ...

  3. Gamma distribution - Wikipedia

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    In Bayesian inference, the gamma distribution is the conjugate prior to many likelihood distributions: the Poisson, exponential, normal (with known mean), Pareto, gamma with known shape σ, inverse gamma with known shape parameter, and Gompertz with known scale parameter. The gamma distribution's conjugate prior is: [28]

  4. Poisson distribution - Wikipedia

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    The confidence interval for the mean of a Poisson distribution can be expressed using the relationship between the cumulative distribution functions of the Poisson and chi-squared distributions. The chi-squared distribution is itself closely related to the gamma distribution , and this leads to an alternative expression.

  5. Conjugate prior - Wikipedia

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    In Bayesian probability theory, if, given a likelihood function (), the posterior distribution is in the same probability distribution family as the prior probability distribution (), the prior and posterior are then called conjugate distributions with respect to that likelihood function and the prior is called a conjugate prior for the likelihood function ().

  6. Poisson regression - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, Poisson regression is a generalized linear model form of regression analysis used to model count data and contingency tables. [1] Poisson regression assumes the response variable Y has a Poisson distribution, and assumes the logarithm of its expected value can be modeled by a linear combination of unknown parameters.

  7. Gamma process - Wikipedia

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    Also known as the (Moran-)Gamma Process, [1] the gamma process is a random process studied in mathematics, statistics, probability theory, and stochastics. The gamma process is a stochastic or random process consisting of independently distributed gamma distributions where N ( t ) {\displaystyle N(t)} represents the number of event occurrences ...

  8. (a,b,0) class of distributions - Wikipedia

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    The (a,b,0) class of distributions is also known as the Panjer, [1] [2] the Poisson-type or the Katz family of distributions, [3] [4] and may be retrieved through the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution. Only the Poisson, binomial and negative binomial distributions satisfy the full form of this

  9. Variance-stabilizing transformation - Wikipedia

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    For example, suppose that the values x are realizations from different Poisson distributions: i.e. the distributions each have different mean values μ. Then, because for the Poisson distribution the variance is identical to the mean, the variance varies with the mean. However, if the simple variance-stabilizing transformation