[R] Fitting a quasipoisson distribution to univariate data

[Nigel Harding]

Dear all,
I am analyzing counts of seabirds made from line transects at sea.

I have been fitting Poisson and negative binomial distributions to the data
using the goodfit function from the vcd library. I would also like to
evaluate how well a quasi-poisson distribution fits the data. However, none
of the potentially suitable functions I have identified (goodfit(vcd),
fitdistr(MASS), fit.dist(gnlm)) includes the quasipoisson distribution as
one of their standard named distributions. Is the way forward to supply an
appropriate density function to fitdistr, or is there some easier way to fit
a quasipoisson distribution?

Many thanks

Nigel Harding
Craigton Ecological Services
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