The zero-truncated Poisson distribution is useful to model certain demographic data, such as sizes of households and families 1. This post illustrates this on historical data from the United Kingdom and demonstrates how to assess the goodness-of-fit in Python. The zero-truncated Poisson distribution is defined as\begin{align}\mathbf{P}\{Y=x\} = \mathbf{P}\{ X = x | X > 0\}, …
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