Some parametrizations of `NegativeBinomial` can underflow `p`

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Some parametrizations of `NegativeBinomial` can underflow `p` #95

Open theogf opened 1 year ago

theogf commented 1 year ago

With the NBParamII for sufficiently large values of f (something like 800), p will be equal to zero and many estimator starts to break down. This might be something to be dealt in Distributions.jl though.