Zero-Truncated Compoisson-Binomial Distribution and its Application

Abstract

In this paper, Zero-truncated Com-binomial distribution was derived and investigated its behavior in modeling structurally non-zero data. The proposed distribution is characterized by two parameters, which make it flexible. The maximum likelihood method is used to obtain the estimators of the parameters through R-software. Two real-life datasets were used to evaluate its performance. The statistic (chi square goodness-of-fit) with the p-value shows that the proposed Zero-truncated Com-binomial distribution yields “a good fit”.