Tweedie distribution (original) (raw)

In probability and statistics, the Tweedie distributions are a family of probability distributions which include the purely continuous normal, gamma and inverse Gaussian distributions, the purely discrete scaled Poisson distribution, and the class of compound Poisson–gamma distributions which have positive mass at zero, but are otherwise continuous.Tweedie distributions are a special case of exponential dispersion models and are often used as distributions for generalized linear models.