Dear Faith,
You can use a negative binomial distribution.
Best regards,
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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FOREST
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Op do 3 dec. 2020 om 11:24 schreef Ebhodaghe Faith <
ebhodaghefaith at gmail.com>:
Hi All.
I have a dataset for wish I intend to model an over-dispersed proportion
response variable with hierarchical structure. I tried using the Quasi
Poisson family, but available packages including glmmTMB do not allow
this.
What do you advice?
Thanks in advance for your kind response.
Faith Ebhodaghe
Nairobi, Kenya
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