Call me uncouth, but I like my TV loud, my beer cold and my optimization functions as simple as possible. Therefore, what I write in this blog post is very much from a layman’s perspective, and I am happy to be corrected on any fundamental errors. I have recently ... [Read more...]

A common model for counts data is the Poisson. There are cases however that we only record positive counts, ie there is a truncation of 0. This is the truncated Poisson model. To study this model we only need the total counts and the sample size. This comes from the sufficient ... [Read more...]