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BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
Volume 36, Issue 4, Pages 641-674Publisher
BRAZILIAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
DOI: 10.1214/22-BJPS544
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Lifetime datasets; zero-inflation; count regression; compound Poisson; overdispersion; censoring; Poisson-Ailamujia model
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This study proposes a new heterogeneous Poisson model with a capture of excess zeros, namely zero-inflated Poisson-Ailamujia (ZIPA) model, and a censored variant of this model is also developed. Extensive simulation study and real world applications are conducted to assess the performances of these new models.
There is ever growing demand of modeling overdispersed count data generated by various disiplines. Excessive number of zeros and hetero-geneity in the population are two main sources of the overdispersion problem. Development of new count models that are more flexible than conventional Poisson model is thus necessary in order to address such sources. This study fullfils this need by proposing a new heterogeneous Poisson model with a cap-ture of excess zeros, namely zero-inflated Poisson-Ailamujia (ZIPA) model. In line with the aim of curing overdispersion, a censored variant of this newly suggested model is also here developed. An extensive simulation study is conducted to assess the performances of both forms of new models in terms of bias, precision and accuracy measures. Additionally, two real world ap-plications are presented to illustrate practical implications of zero-inflated (censored) Poisson-Ailamujia models in comparison to some alternatives.
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