Sensitivity of score tests for zero-inflation in count data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 2757-2769

  Lee, Andy H ^a   Xiang, Liming ^a   Fung, Wing K ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Influential observations; Poisson regression; Score test; Zero inflated negative binomial; Zero inflated Poisson

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PANCREAS DISEASE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PANCREATIC DISEASES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4444380177     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1828     Document Type: Article

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