Altham-multiplicative binomial Notation
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{\displaystyle \mathrm {AlthamMultBin} (a,r,n)}
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probability mass function of the Altham-multiplicative binomial distribution is
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{\displaystyle \mathrm {AlthamMultBin} (x;a,n,p)\equiv \Pr(X=x)={\frac {{\binom {n}{x}}p^{x}(1-p)^{n-x}a^{x(n-x)}}{F(n)}}}
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{\displaystyle x=0,1,\dots ,n}
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{\displaystyle a\geq 0}
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{\displaystyle n\in \mathbb {N} _{0}}
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{\displaystyle 0\leq p\leq 1}
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{\displaystyle q=1-p}
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{\displaystyle F(n)=\sum _{j=0}^{n}{\binom {n}{j}}p^{j}(1-p)^{n-j}a^{j(n-j)}}
Interrelations
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Symbol
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∼
{\displaystyle \sim }
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{\displaystyle X\sim Y}
≡
{\displaystyle \equiv }
the distribution in the title is identical with this distribution
⇐
{\displaystyle \Leftarrow }
the distribution in title is a special case of this distribution
⇒
{\displaystyle \Rightarrow }
this distribution is a special case of the distribution in the title
←
{\displaystyle \leftarrow }
this distribution converges to the distribution in the title
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{\displaystyle \rightarrow }
the distribution in the title converges to this distribution
Relationship
Distribution
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⇐
{\displaystyle \Leftarrow }
generalized power series family
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{\displaystyle \left(a_{x},\theta ,f(.),T\right)}
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{\displaystyle a_{x}={\frac {n_{(x)}a^{x(n-x)}}{x!}}\qquad \theta ={\frac {p}{q}}\qquad f(\theta )=\sum _{j=0}^{n}{\binom {n}{j}}\theta ^{j}a^{j(n-j)}\qquad T=\{0,\dots ,n\}}
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binomial
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{\displaystyle \left(n,p\right)}
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{\displaystyle a=1}
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deterministic
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{\displaystyle \left(0\right)}
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{\displaystyle anp=0}
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deterministic
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{\displaystyle \left(n\right)}
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{\displaystyle p=1}
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{\displaystyle \rightarrow }
Poisson
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{\displaystyle \left(b\right)}
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{\displaystyle a=1\qquad n\rightarrow \infty \qquad p\rightarrow 0\qquad np\rightarrow b}
References
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Altham, P. (1978). Two generalizations of the binomial distribution. Applied Statistics 27, 162-167 Altmann-Fitter (1994). Iterative Anpassung diskreter Wahrscheinlichkeitsverteilungen. Lüdenscheid:RAM-Verlag.Haseman, J.K. Kupper, L.L. (1979). Analysis of dichotomous response data from certain toxicological experiments. Biometrics 35, 281-293 Johnson, N.L., Kotz, S., Kemp, A.W. (1992). Univariate Discrete Distributions. New York: Wiley. pg 149f Makuch, R.W., Stephens, M.A., Escobar, M. (1989). Generalized binomial models to examine the historical control assumption in active control equivalence studies. The Statistician 38, 61-70. Paul, S.R. (1982). Analysis of proportions of affected foetuses in teratological experiments. Biometrics 38, 361-370 Rudolpher, S.M. (1990). A Markov chain model of extrabinomial variations. Biometrika 77, 255-264 Tarone, R.F. (1979). Testing the goodness of fit of the binomial distribution. Biometrika 66, 585-590 Wilcox, R.R. (1981). A review of the beta-binomial model and its extensions. J. of Educational Statistics 6, 3-32 Wimmer, G., Altmann. (1999). Thesaurus of univariate discrete probability distributions. Stamm; 1. ed (1999) , pg 8 
