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RE: st: Zero-truncated Negative Binomial convergence


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   stata list <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Zero-truncated Negative Binomial convergence
Date   Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:08:08 +0000 (GMT)

--- Emily Wilson wrote:
> I am having trouble running a zero-truncated negative binomial
> regression. The dependent variable is: # of visits to a
> specialist physician in the past year, and the distribution is 
> something like:
> 0 visits ~= 93,000
> 1 visit ~= 15,000
> 2 visits ~= 1,000
> 3 visits ~= 500

The zero truncated distribution assumes that there are no zeros.
In your case you definately do have zeros. I would start with a 
regular -poisson-, and than I might worry about excess zeros, 
for which you can look at the zero inflated poisson (-zip-), the 
negative binomial (-nbreg-), and zero inflated negative binomial 
(-zinb-). There is a nice discussion of these models and how to
choose between them in this book:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/regmodcdvs.html

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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