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A comparison of zero-inflated and hurdle models for modeling zero-inflated count data

A comparison of zero-inflated and hurdle models for modeling zero-inflated count data

Counts data with excessive zeros are frequently encountered in practice. For example, the number of health services visits often includes many zeros representing the patients with no utilization during a follow-up time. A common feature of this type of data is that the count measure tends to have excessive zero …