Analyzing Overdispersed Antenatal Care Count Data in Bangladesh: Mixed Poisson Regression with Individual-Level Random Effects

Poisson regression (PR) is commonly used as the base model for analyzing count data with the restrictive equidispersion property. However, overdispersed nature of count data is very common in health sciences. In such cases, PR produces misleading inferences and hence give incorrect interpretations o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zakir Hossain, Maria
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Austrian Statistical Society 2021-07-01
Series:Austrian Journal of Statistics
Online Access:https://www.ajs.or.at/index.php/ajs/article/view/1163