Dear Thierry,
The proportions are on number of individuals infected by a parasite
divided by total number of individuals examined.
Thanks
Faith
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, 4:48 p.m. Thierry Onkelinx, <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>
wrote:
Dear Faith,
I missed to see you have a proportion response. The negative binomial is
a (better) alternative for the quasi Poisson. But they assume count data.
What kind of proportions do you have? Is it based on a number of
successes for a number of trials (binomial, beta binomial)? Or a continuous
value between 0 and 1 (beta)?
Best regards,
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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Op do 3 dec. 2020 om 13:14 schreef Ebhodaghe Faith <
ebhodaghefaith at gmail.com>:
Thanks, Thierry.
But could you please refer me to an article preferably in the biological
sciences where a negative binomial distribution was used to model an
over-dispersed multilevel proportion response variable?
Thanks for your kind assistance.
Regards
Faith
On Thu, 3 Dec 2020, 1:32 p.m. Thierry Onkelinx, <
thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be> wrote:
Dear Faith,
You can use a negative binomial distribution.
Best regards,
ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Statisticus / Statistician
Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders
INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE
AND FOREST
Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be
Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel
www.inbo.be
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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
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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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