Tim,
What is your basis for assuming that your response variable (psychological distress) is a count variable?
Scott R Millis, PhD, MEd, ABPP (CN,CL,RP), CStat
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--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Tim Hale <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Tim Hale <[email protected]>
> Subject: st: suggested references about the variables to include in zero-inflated portion of zinb?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 1:18 AM
> I am using zinb to estimate level of psychological distress
> (scores
> range from 0-24) using various demographic variables and
> measures of
> use of the Internet. I've used -countfit- to compare
> various count
> models and the results support zinb as the best fitting
> model.
>
> I am uncertain, however, about how to justify the variables
> that I
> include in the zero-inflated part of the model. I've
> read journal
> articles that have used zinb, read the book by Freese and
> Long, and
> searched the Internet and Statalist but I have not been
> able to find
> any detailed recommendations or procedures. Can anyone
> suggest any
> other sources (books or journals) that provide an
> explanation or a
> good example of this process?
>
> Ideally I would like to find a good source that I can cite
> in the
> paper -- but I appreciate any suggestions about this you
> might have.
>
> Thanks for you help,
> Tim
>
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