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Modeling Heaped Count Data

Authors :
James W. Hardin
Tammy H. Cummings
Kevin J. Bennett
James R. Hussey
Alexander C. McLain
Gina M. Wingood
Source :
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata. 15:457-479
Publication Year :
2015
Publisher :
SAGE Publications, 2015.

Abstract

We present motivation and new commands for modeling heaped count data. These data may appear when subjects report counts that are rounded or favor multiples (digit preference) of a certain outcome, such as the number of cigarettes reported. The new commands for fitting count regression models (Poisson, generalized Poisson, negative binomial) are also accompanied by real-world examples comparing the heaped regression model with the usual regression model as well as the heaped zero-inflated model with the usual zero-inflated model.

Details

ISSN :
15368734 and 1536867X
Volume :
15
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........dc1f5f03d74ed6bbab5cabbbe668bb2a
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867x1501500207