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Random effect models for repeated measures of zero-inflated count data

Statistical Division, The United Nations, New York, USA, min3{at}un.org

Alan Agresti

Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Florida, USA

For count responses, the situation of excess zeros (relative to what standard models allow) often occurs in biomedical and sociological applications. Modeling repeated measures of zero-inflated count data presents special challenges. This is because in addition to the problem of extra zeros, the correlation between measurements upon the same subject at different occasions needs to be taken into account. This article discusses random effect models for repeated measurements on this type of response variable. A useful model is the hurdle model with random effects, which separately handles the zero observations and the positive counts. In maximum likelihood model fitting, we consider both a normal distribution and a nonparametric approach for the random effects. A special case of the hurdle model can be used to test for zero inflation. Random effects can also be introduced in a zero-inflated Poisson or negative binomial model, but such a model may encounter fitting problems if there is zero deflation at any settings of the explanatory variables. A simple alternative approach adapts the cumulative logit model with random effects, which has a single set of parameters for describing effects. We illustrate the proposed methods with examples.

Key Words: cumulative logit model • generalized linear mixed model • hurdle model • negative binomial model • nonparametric mixture model • zero-inflated Poisson model

Statistical Modelling, Vol. 5, No. 1, 1-19 (2005)
DOI: 10.1191/1471082X05st084oa


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