Conditional tests for homogeneity of zero-inflated Poisson and Poisson-hurdle distributions

Edward J. Bedrick; Anwar Hossain

doi:10.1016/j.csda.2012.11.009

Conditional tests for homogeneity of zero-inflated Poisson and Poisson-hurdle distributions

Edward J. Bedrick, Anwar Hossain

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Abstract

We develop two conditional tests for homogeneity of zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) and Poisson-hurdle distributions. A Monte Carlo method is proposed for approximating the reference distributions of these tests. The techniques are applied to two examples.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	99-106
Number of pages	8
Journal	Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Volume	61
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2012.11.009
State	Published - 2013
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Contingency table
Overdispersion
Stirling number
Truncated Poisson distribution

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Statistics and Probability
Computational Mathematics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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Conditional tests for homogeneity of zero-inflated Poisson and Poisson-hurdle distributions

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