Re: [R-sig-eco] probability distribution for zero-inflated, right skewed data

2014-06-16 Thread Johannes Björk
Definitely looks promising. Thanks Bob! On Jun 16, 2014, at 2:29 PM, Bob O'Hara wrote: On 16/06/14 13:57, Johannes Björk wrote: Dear all, Im looking into how to fit a GLM model (Im using rjags) with data that are heavily right skewed. In addition, some variables also zero-inflated. The

Re: [R-sig-eco] probability distribution for zero-inflated, right skewed data

2014-06-16 Thread Cade, Brian
You could try estimating the conditional cumulative distribution function with quantile regression by estimating a large interval of quantiles (e.g., 0.01 to 0.99 if your n is large enough). Quantile regression will readily handle skewed and heterogeneous responses. Some finessing required to

Re: [R-sig-eco] probability distribution for zero-inflated, right skewed data

2014-06-16 Thread Scott Foster
Hi, Just a little note about computational methods for Tweedies and compound Poisson-gammas. The package statMod has a Tweedie family that can be used in glm(), the package Tweedie has functions for density calculations (and other things), the package fishMod (my own package) has methods to