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Mehboob Hussain1, Sajid Ali1, Ismail Shah1
1Department of Statistics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Abstract:
Zero-inflated count data frequently arise in health research, where accurate statistical modeling is essential for a valid inference. This study, motivated by alcohol misuse prevention trials, aims to evaluate and compare the statistical properties of various count data models. Extensive simulations are conducted to compare the statistical power and type I error rates under varying data generation conditions, including different zero-inflation levels, intervention effect, and sample sizes to mimic the real trials. It is noticed that the Poisson and negative binomial models have inflated type I errors and decreased statistical power than the zero-inflated models. Among zero-inflated models, hurdle models perform better while the marginalized zero-inflated Poisson has the highest power when intervention effects are kept similar.
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