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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 2-20Publisher
BRAZILIAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
DOI: 10.1214/19-BJPS458
Keywords
Dispersion models; exponential dispersion models; exponential family; non-linear models; proper dispersion models; saddlepoint approximations
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- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
- National Council for the Improvement of Higher Education (CAPES)
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This article briefly introduces the theory and application of dispersion models, highlighting the importance of mathematical assumptions and the construction of various types of dispersion models.
We briefly expose some key aspects of the theory and use of dispersion models, for which Bent Jorgensen played a crucial role as a driving force and an inspiration source. Starting with the general notion of dispersion models, built using minimalistic mathematical assumptions, we specialize in two classes of families of distributions with different statistical flavors: exponential dispersion and proper dispersion models. The construction of dispersion models involves the solution of integral equations that are, in general, untractable. These difficulties disappear when more mathematical structure is assumed: it reduces to the calculation of a moment generating function or of a Riemann-Stieltjes integral for the exponential dispersion and the proper dispersion models, respectively. A new technique for constructing dispersion models based on characteristic functions is introduced turning the integral equations above into a tractable convolution equation and yielding examples of dispersion models that are neither proper dispersion nor exponential dispersion models. A corollary is that the cardinality of regular and non-regular dispersion models are both large. Some selected applications are discussed including exponential families non-linear models (for which generalized linear models are particular cases) and several models for clustered and dependent data based on a latent Levy process.
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