A Note on Tweedie

by Joseph Rickert In a recent post I talked about the information that can be developed by fitting a Tweedie GLM to a 143 million record version of the airlines data set. Since I started working with them about a year or so ago, I now see Tweedie models everywhere. Basically, any time I come across a histogram that looks like it might be a sample from a gamma distribution except for a big spike at zero, I see a candidate for a Tweedie model. (Having a Tweedie hammer makes lots of things look like Tweedie nails.) Nevertheless, apparently lots...