--- Eva Poen <[email protected]> wrote:
> My question concerns the goodness of fit. I would like to compare the
> goodness fit of the complicated finite mixture model to much simpler
> models, e.g. the tobit model, the glm model. and a hurdle
> specification.
This problem looks a bit like the problem that J. Scott Long and Jeremy
Freese discuss in section 8.7 of their book "Regression Models for
Categorical Dependent Variables Using Stata" (2nd edition) (or section
7.5 in the 1st edition). In this section they compare count models that
differ with respect to the way they deal with excess zeros. Maybe you
can steal some trick from them.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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