@article {STMAZ.06130760,
    author       = {Dai, Hongsheng and Bao, Yanchun and Bao, Mingtang},
    title        = {Maximum likelihood estimate for the dispersion parameter of the negative binomial distribution.},
    year         = {2013},
    journal      = {Statistics \& Probability Letters},
    volume       = {83},
    number       = {1},
    issn         = {0167-7152},
    pages        = {21-27},
    publisher    = {Elsevier Science B.V. (North-Holland), Amsterdam},
    doi          = {10.1016/j.spl.2012.08.017},
    abstract     = {Summary: This paper shows that the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) for the dispersion parameter of the negative binomial distribution is unique under a certain condition. A fixed-point iteration algorithm is proposed and it guarantees to converge to the MLE, when the score function has a unique root.},
    msc2010      = {62-XX},
    identifier   = {06130760},
}