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Estimation for bivariate osson distribution,holgate,biometrica

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This paper is concerned with the estimation of the covariance parameter of the bivariate  

Poisson distribution. It is shown that the method of moments has low efficiency for  

distributions with appreciable correlation, and an iterative method of solving the likelihood  

equation is described. A further method of estimation is described which is more efficient  

than the method of moments for certain regions of the parameter space. Finally, the  

numerical results of applying the maximum-likelihood method to two sets of data are given