Cacoullos and Papageorgiou (1982, in Statistics and Probability: Essays in Honor of C. R. Rao, G. Kallianpur et al. (eds), 155-168; Amsterdam: North-Holland) introduced and studied a three-parameter ...

This note sketches a biological context for the negative binomial distribution, gives some of the many equivalent mathematical notations that have been used for the negative binomial probabilities, ...