Compound zero-truncated Poisson normal distribution and its applications

Mohammad Z. Raqab, Debasis Kundu and Fahimah A. Al-Awadhi

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2021, vol. 50, issue 13, 3030-3050

Abstract: Here, we first propose three-parameter model and call it as the compound zero-truncated Poisson normal (ZTP-N) distribution. The model is based on the random sum of N independent Gaussian random variables, where N is a zero truncated Poisson random variable. The proposed ZTP-N distribution is a very flexible probability distribution function. The probability density function can take variety of shapes. It can be both positively and negatively skewed, moreover, normal distribution can be obtained as a special case. It can be unimodal, bimodal as well as multimodal also. It has three parameters. An efficient EM type algorithm has been proposed to compute the maximum likelihood estimators of the unknown parameters. We further propose a four-parameter bivariate distribution with continuous and discrete marginals, and discuss estimation of unknown parameters based on the proposed EM type algorithm. Some simulation experiments have been performed to see the effectiveness of the proposed EM type algorithm, and one real data set has been analyzed for illustrative purposes.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2019.1679182

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