Continuous Variable: can take on any value between two specified values. Obtained by measuring. Covariance: a measure of the direction of the linear relationship between two variables. Discrete ...
For binomial and Poisson distributions, the scale parameter has a value of 1. The variance of Y is for the binomial distribution and for the Poisson distribution. Overdispersion occurs when the ...
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 36, No. 1 (1987), pp. 8-14 (7 pages) ...