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Fitting the negative binomial distribution to some data on asynaptic behaviour of chromosomes

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Jain, S.K. Fitting the negative binomial distribution to some data on asynaptic behaviour of chromosomes. Genetica 30, 108–122 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01535667

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