k_negative_binomial: Negative binomial

In ralphmp/ecopaR: functions for parasite ecology

Negative binomial

Description

Calculate binomial negative aggregation index. Note that this function is a very simple implementation of fitdist from fitdistrplus package for pragmatic purpose. You can do much more with fitdistrplus.

Usage

k_negative_binomial(x)

k_negative_binomial_inverse(x)

Arguments

x	number of parasites by host

Functions

• k_negative_binomial_inverse(): K from binomial negative inverse

References

Delignette-Muller, Marie Laure, and Christophe Dutang. 2015. “Fitdistrplus: An R Package for Fitting Distributions.” Journal of Statistical Software 64 (4): 1–34. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.18637/jss.v064.i04")}

Examples

attach(birdticks)
k_negative_binomial(ticks)
attach(birdticks)
k_negative_binomial_inverse(ticks)

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