Setting Options

Option
Description
Methods
Dispersion
Dispersion parameter
enables you to specify a fixed dispersion parameter for those distributions that have a dispersion parameter. By default, this parameter is estimated.
Optimization
Method
specifies the optimization technique to use.
Maximum number of iterations
specifies the maximum number of iterations to perform for the selected optimization technique.
Statistics
You can select the statistics to include in the output.
Here are the additional statistics that you can include:
  • confidence limits for estimates
  • correlations of parameter estimates
  • covariances of parameter estimates