Estimating Parameters of A Hyper-Poisson Distribution in SAS

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Similar to COM-Poisson, Double-Poisson, and Generalized Poisson distributions discussed in my previous post (https://statcompute.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/more-about-flexible-frequency-models/), the Hyper-Poisson distribution is another extension of the standard Poisson and is able to accommodate both under-dispersion and over-dispersion that are common in real-world problems. Given the complexity of parameterization and computation, the Hyper-Poisson is somewhat under-investigated. To the best of my knowledge, there is no off-shelf computing routine in SAS for the Hyper-Poisson distribution and only a R function available in http://www4.ujaen.es/~ajsaez/hp.fit.r written by A.J. Sáez-Castillo and A. Conde-Sánchez (2013).

The SAS code presented below is the starting point of my attempt on the Hyper-Poisson and its potential applications. The purpose is to replicate the calculation result shown in the Table 6 of “On the Hyper-Poisson Distribution and its Generalization with Applications” by Bayo H. Lawal (2017) (http://www.journalrepository.org/media/journals/BJMCS_6/2017/Mar/Lawal2132017BJMCS32184.pdf). As a result, the parameterization employed in my SAS code will closely follow Bayo H. Lawal (2017) instead of A.J. Sáez-Castillo and A. Conde-Sánchez (2013).

data d1;
  input y n @@;
datalines;
0 121 1 85 2 19 3 1 4 0 5 0 6 1
;
run;

data df;
  set d1;
  where n > 0;
  do i = 1 to n;
    output;
  end;
run;

proc nlmixed data = df;
  parms lambda = 1 beta = 1;
  theta = 1;
  do k = 1 to 100;
    theta = theta + gamma(beta) * (lambda ** k) / gamma(beta + k);
  end;
  prob = (gamma(beta) / gamma(beta + y)) * ((lambda ** y) / theta);
  ll = log(prob);
  model y ~ general(ll);
run;

/*
                     Standard
Parameter  Estimate     Error    DF  t Value  Pr > |t|   Alpha
lambda       0.3752    0.1178   227     3.19    0.0016    0.05
beta         0.5552    0.2266   227     2.45    0.0150    0.05 
*/

As shown, the estimated Lambda = 0.3752 and the estimated Beta = 0.5552 are identical to what is presented in the paper. The next step is be to explore applications in the frequency modeling as well as its value in business cases.

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