[R] model non-integer count outcomes

David Winsemius dwinsemius at comcast.net
Wed Jul 22 05:38:01 CEST 2015


On Jul 21, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Wensui Liu wrote:

> Dear Lister
> When the count outcomes are integers, we could use either Poisson or
> NB regression to model them. However, there are cases that the count
> outcomes are non-integers, e.g. average counts.
> I am wondering if it still makes sense to use Poisson or NB regression
> to model these non-integer outcomes.

There is a quasi-binomial error model that accepts non-integer outcomes.

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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA



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