@inproceedings{minka2003computing, author = {Minka, Tom and Shmueli, Galit and Kadane, Joseph B. and Borle, Sharad and Boatwright, Peter}, title = {Computing with the COM-Poisson Distribution}, year = {2003}, month = {June}, abstract = {The Conway-Maxwell-Poisson (COM-Poisson) is a generalization of the Poisson distribution which can model both under-dispersed and over-dispersed data. However, the distribution, moments, and MLE cannot be computed in closed form. This paper describes computational schemes and handy approximations for the COM-Poisson.}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/computing-com-poisson-distribution/}, }