statsmodels.genmod.generalized_linear_model.GLM.estimate_scale¶
method
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GLM.estimate_scale(mu)[source]¶ Estimates the dispersion/scale.
Type of scale can be chose in the fit method.
- Parameters
- muarray
mu is the mean response estimate
- Returns
- Estimate of scale
Notes
The default scale for Binomial, Poisson and Negative Binomial families is 1. The default for the other families is Pearson’s Chi-Square estimate.