Zero-inflated Bell regression models for count data

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Publié dans:Journal of applied statistics. - 1991. - 47(2020), 2 vom: 12., Seite 265-286
Auteur principal: Lemonte, Artur J (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Moreno-Arenas, Germán, Castellares, Fredy
Format: Article en ligne
Langue:English
Publié: 2020
Accès à la collection:Journal of applied statistics
Sujets:Journal Article 62F10 62J05 62J20 Bell distribution count data excess zeros overdispersion zero-inflated models
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Résumé:© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
By starting from the one-parameter Bell distribution proposed recently in the statistic literature, we introduce the zero-inflated Bell family of distributions. Additionally, on the basis of the proposed zero-inflated distribution, a novel zero-inflated regression model is proposed, which is quite simple and may be an interesting alternative to usual zero-inflated regression models for count data. We consider a frequentist approach to perform inferences, and the maximum likelihood method is employed to estimate the zero-inflated Bell regression parameters. Monte Carlo simulations indicate that the maximum likelihood method is quite effective to estimate the zero-inflated Bell regression parameters. We also propose the Pearson residuals for the new zero-inflated regression model to assess departures from model assumptions. Additionally, the global and local influence methods are discussed. In particular, the normal curvature for studying local influence is derived under case weighting perturbation scheme. Finally, an application to the count of infected blood cells is considered to illustrate the usefulness of the zero-inflated Bell regression model in practice. The results suggest that the new zero-inflated Bell regression is more appropriate to model these count data than other familiar zero-inflated (or not) regression models commonly used in practice
Description:Date Revised 16.06.2022
published: Electronic-eCollection
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:0266-4763
DOI:10.1080/02664763.2019.1636940