The negative binomial distribution

This note sketches a biological context for the negative binomial distribu- tion, gives some of the many equivalent mathematical notations that have been used for the negative binomial probabilities, and discusses the use of the computer program MLP (the Maximum Likelihood Program) for fitting negative binomial distributions to data.

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