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Questions concerning glmmADMB and hurdle model

Dear Amirouche,

A common misconception is that a lot of zero's in the the response
automatically implies zero-inflation. Poisson or negative binomial
distributions with low expected values yield a lot of zero's, even without
zero-inflation.

So my advice would be to fit a Poisson or negative binomial model and test
if there is any zero-inflation.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
Kliniekstraat 25
1070 Anderlecht
Belgium

To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more
than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say
what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not
ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.
~ John Tukey

2016-03-30 11:46 GMT+02:00 Amirouche Sadoun <
amirouche.sadoun at cerco.ups-tlse.fr>: