statsmodels.genmod.families.family.NegativeBinomial.get_distribution¶ NegativeBinomial.get_distribution(mu, scale=1.0, var_weights=1.0)[source]¶ Frozen NegativeBinomial distribution instance for given parameters Parameters:¶ mu : ndarray¶Usually but not always the fitted mean response variable. scale : float¶The scale parameter is ignored. var_weights : array_like¶1d array of variance (analytic) weights. The default is 1. var_weights are ignored for NegativeBinomial. Return type:¶ distribution instance