Zero Inflated Exponential Distribution and It's Variants

Authors

Sougata Dhar, University of Texas-Pan American

Date of Award

8-2011

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Mathematics

First Advisor

Dr. Santanu Charkaborty

Second Advisor

Dr. Paul Bracken

Third Advisor

Dr. Arunava Mukherjea

Abstract

There have been a lot of studies with respect to the popular Zero Inflated versions of some discrete distributions, like Zero Inflated Poisson and Zero Inflated Negative Binomial distributions. They arise naturally in the literature when one aims to model count data sets having more than usual number of zeros by well known probability distributions. But it can be argued and established that Zero Inflated versions of continuous distributions also make sense. In this thesis, we first provide some motivations for studying Zero Inflated versions of exponential distribution and its variants and then study some parametric and Bayesian aspects related to the Zero Inflated Exponential Distribution.

Comments

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Granting Institution

University of Texas-Pan American