A generalization of Poisson-Sujatha distribution and its applications to ecology

Abstract

A generalization of Poisson Sujatha distribution (AGPSD), which includes Poisson-Lindley distribution (PLD) and Poisson-Sujatha distribution (PSD) as particular cases, has been proposed and studied. Its moments and moments-based measures including coefficient of variation, skewness, kurtosis and index of dispersion have been obtained and their behaviors have been discussed. The estimation of its parameters has been discussed with maximum likelihood estimation. The applications of the proposed distribution has been explained through two examples of count data from ecology and the goodness of fit of the distribution has been compared with Poisson distribution, PLD and PSD.