Re: [R] Modelling an incomplete Poisson distribution ?

2009-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear Ben, Le samedi 18 avril 2009 à 23:37 +, Ben Bolker a écrit : Emmanuel Charpentier charpent at bacbuc.dyndns.org writes: I forgot to add that yes, I've done my homework, and that it seems to me that answers pointing to zero-inflated Poisson (and negative binomial) are

[R] Modelling an incomplete Poisson distribution ?

2009-04-18 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Dear list, I have the following problem : I want to model a series of observations of a given hospital activity on various days under various conditions. among my outcomes (dependent variables) is the number of patients for which a certain procedure is done. The problem is that, when no relevant

Re: [R] Modelling an incomplete Poisson distribution ?

2009-04-18 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
I forgot to add that yes, I've done my homework, and that it seems to me that answers pointing to zero-inflated Poisson (and negative binomial) are irrelevant ; I do not have a mixture of distributions but only part of one distribution, or, if you'll have it, a zero-deflated Poisson. An answer by

Re: [R] Modelling an incomplete Poisson distribution ?

2009-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
Emmanuel Charpentier charpent at bacbuc.dyndns.org writes: I forgot to add that yes, I've done my homework, and that it seems to me that answers pointing to zero-inflated Poisson (and negative binomial) are irrelevant ; I do not have a mixture of distributions but only part of one