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title: 'scModels: Fitting Discrete Distribution Models to Count Data'
version: 1.0.5
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.scModels
abstract: 'Provides functions for fitting discrete distribution models to count data.
  Included are the Poisson, the negative binomial, the Poisson-inverse gaussian and,
  most importantly, a new implementation of the Poisson-beta distribution (density,
  distribution and quantile functions, and random number generator) together with
  a needed new implementation of Kummer''s function (also: confluent hypergeometric
  function of the first kind). Three different implementations of the Gillespie algorithm
  allow data simulation based on the basic, switching or bursting mRNA generating
  processes. Moreover, likelihood functions for four variants of each of the three
  aforementioned distributions are also available. The variants include one population
  and two population mixtures, both with and without zero-inflation. The package depends
  on the ''MPFR'' libraries (<https://www.mpfr.org/>) which need to be installed separately
  (see description at <https://github.com/fuchslab/scModels>). This package is supplement
  to the paper "A mechanistic model for the negative binomial distribution of single-cell
  mRNA counts" by Lisa Amrhein, Kumar Harsha and Christiane Fuchs (2019) <https://doi.org/10.1101/657619>
  available on bioRxiv.'
authors:
- family-names: Amrhein
  given-names: Lisa
  email: amrheinlisa@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0370-624X
- family-names: Harsha
  given-names: Kumar
  email: kumarharsha.0292@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3865-5286
- family-names: Fuchs
  given-names: Christiane
  email: christiane.fuchs@helmholtz-muenchen.de
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3565-8315
repository: https://hkumar6.r-universe.dev
commit: 465f3de2ee5a6dba5b9e9debf5b2545ddba9ffb7
date-released: '2026-06-05'
contact:
- family-names: Harsha
  given-names: Kumar
  email: kumarharsha.0292@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3865-5286