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wpetry opened this issue Apr 3, 2025 · 0 comments
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add Bell distribution #3172

wpetry opened this issue Apr 3, 2025 · 0 comments

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wpetry commented Apr 3, 2025

This feature request would add support for the Bell distribution. The Bell distribution is suitable for count data, has a single parameter, and can model overdispersed counts.

The PDF is:

Pr ( Y = k ) = α k e e α + 1 B k k ! , k = 0 , 1 , 2 ,

where α > 0 , and B k are the Bell numbers (i.e., unique partitions of a set).

The R package fndemarqui/bellreg has a Stan implementation.

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