[ADMB Users] Estimating the dispersion parameter of the negative binomial

[Mark Maunder]

Is it possible to estimate the dispersion parameter of the negative binomial GLM using maximum likelihood in ADMB (i.e. admbglmm) and if so why is this possible given others use two component iterative methods such as the EM algorithm or profiling over the dispersion parameter?

Thanks,

Mark


Mark Maunder

IATTC fall workshop: Using Oceanography for Fisheries Stock Assessment and Management
11-14 October 2011, La Jolla, CA
http://www.fisheriesstockassessment.com/TikiWiki/tiki-index.php?page=Using+Oceanography+for+Fisheries+Stock+Assessment+and+Management+2011




Head of the Stock Assessment Program
Inter-American  Tropical Tuna Commission

President
ADMB Foundation

8604 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA, 92037-1508, USA

Tel: (858) 546-7027
Fax: (858) 546-7133
mmaunder at iattc.org<mailto:mmaunder at iattc.org>
http://www.fisheriesstockassessment.com/TikiWiki/tiki-index.php?page=Mark+Maunder

Visit the AD Model Builder project at
 http://admb-project.org/

See the following website for information on fisheries stock assessment http://www.fisheriesstockassessment.com/


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.admb-project.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20111227/24720a73/attachment.html>