• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Visualizing count data regressions using rootograms
  • Contributor: Kleiber, Christian [Author]; Zeileis, Achim [Author]
  • Published: Innsbruck: University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), 2014
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: C52 ; C87 ; hurdle model ; finite mixture ; visualization ; count data ; Poisson regression ; negative binomial regression ; C25 ; goodness of fit ; rootogram
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  • Description: We show how the rootogram - a graphical tool associated with the work of J. W. Tukey and originally used for assessing goodness of fit of univariate distributions - can help to diagnose and treat issues such as overdispersion and/or excess zeros in regression models for count data. Two empirical illustrations, from ethology and from public health, are included. The former employs a negative binomial hurdle regression, the latter a two-component finite mixture of negative binomial models for which weighted versions of rootograms are utilized.
  • Access State: Open Access