Applications Of Zero Inflated Model For Health Sciences Data
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Date
2015
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Journal of Advances Scientific Research
Abstract
Pneumonia is an infection of one or both lungs which is usually caused by bacteria, viruses, or fungi. Each year, pneumonia attack
kills about 1.4 million people in the world, especially among children who are also the main sufferers of the disease. The aim of this
study was to examine the factors that are associated directly or indirectly in pneumonia patients among the children. In this present
paper, we have considered several regressions model to fit the count data that encounter in the field of Health Sciences. We have
fitted Poisson, Negative Binomial (NB), Zero-Inflated Poisson (ZIP) and Zero-Inflated Negative Binomial (ZINB) regressions to
pneumonia data. To compare the performance of these models, we analysed data with moderate to high percentage of zero counts.
Because the variances were almost two times greater than the means, it appeared that both NB and ZINB models performed better
than Poisson and ZIP models for the zero inflated and overdispersed count data. From the results of the ZINB regression can
overcome overdispersion so it was better than the Poisson regression model
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Poisson regression, Negative Binomial Regression, Overdispersion