Tweedie Distribution
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- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
This distribution is useful for zero inflated data. It would be nice to be able to include it in Stan. There is an existing R package for maximum likelihood estimation:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tweedie/tweedie.pdf
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file, test, or entry point is named. Begin by reading the linked R package documentation and comparing its Tweedie definition with the requested Stan support; done requires an agreed implementation scope and corresponding distribution support.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100