Discrete distributions based on inter arrival times with application to football data

Saralees Nadarajah*, Stephen Chan

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    Abstract

    Motivated by McShane, Adrian, Bradlow and Fader [Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 26, 2008, 369–378], we introduce thirteen discrete distributions. We give explicit expressions for their probability mass functions. We analyze two football data sets and show that some of the proposed distributions provide better fits than the distribution due to McShane, Adrian, Bradlow, and Fader.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)0
    Number of pages1
    JournalCommunications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
    Early online date3 Mar 2017
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

    Keywords

    • Chi-square goodness-of-fit statistic
    • maximum likelihood
    • probability mass function.

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