A Fast and Efficient Estimation of the Parameters of a Model of Accident Frequencies via an MM Algorithm

Algorithm 2

Accelerated MM algorithm (SqS3) for computing the MLE .

Input:, , , ... and , ...,

Output: MLE

1 Initialize and where and for all , ;

2 repeat

3 ;

4 ;

5 ;

6 ;

7 ifthen

8  ;

9 end

10 ;

11 until

12 Set .