statsmodels.genmod.generalized_linear_model.GLM.estimate_scale¶
- GLM.estimate_scale(mu)[source]¶
Estimate the dispersion/scale.
Type of scale can be chose in the fit method.
- Parameters:
- mu
ndarray
mu is the mean response estimate
- mu
- 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.