statsmodels.genmod.families.family.NegativeBinomial.get_distribution

NegativeBinomial.get_distribution(mu, scale=1.0, var_weights=1.0)[source]

Frozen NegativeBinomial distribution instance for given parameters

Parameters:
  • mu (ndarray) – Usually but not always the fitted mean response variable.

  • scale (float) – The scale parameter is ignored.

  • var_weights (array_like) – 1d array of variance (analytic) weights. The default is 1. var_weights are ignored for NegativeBinomial.

Return type:

distribution instance