An extension of an over-dispersion test for count data

نویسندگان

  • M. Fazil Baksh
  • Dankmar Böhning
  • Rattana Lerdsuwansri
چکیده

While over-dispersion in capture–recapture studies is well known to lead to poor estimation of population size, current diagnostic tools to detect the presence of heterogeneity have not been specifically developed for capture–recapture studies. To address this, a simple and efficient method of testing for over-dispersion in zero-truncated count data is developed and evaluated. The proposed method generalizes an overdispersion test previously suggested for un-truncated count data and may also be used for testing residual over-dispersion in zero-inflation data. Simulations suggest that the asymptotic distribution of the test statistic is standard normal and that this approximation is also reasonable for small sample sizes. Themethod is also shown to bemore efficient than an existing test for over-dispersion adapted for the capture–recapture setting. Studies with zero-truncated and zero-inflated count data are used to illustrate the test procedures. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

دوره 55  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011