Hi all: I have 3 questions about the poisson regression of contingency table.
Q1¡¢How to understand the "independent poisson process"as many books or paper mentioned? For instance: Table1 ------------------------------------------- treat caner non-cancer sum ------------------------------------------- treat1 52(57.18) 19(13.82) 71 treat2 39(33.82) 3 (8.18) 42 ------------------------------------------- sum 91 22 113 ------------------------------------------- The numbers in parentheses are the expected frequency,which are computed by(57.18 for instance): 71*91/113=57.18 But according to poisson distribution,the distribution function is: pr<-exp(-mu)*mu^x/x!.But I can't find this function in the computation of expected frequency of Table1. In other words,how the underdstand the"independent poisson process" from Table1? Q2¡¢How to understand "zero-inflated"? For instance: area nation frequency 1 1 10 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 4 0 2 1 20 2 2 0 2 3 0 2 4 5 3 1 15 3 2 6 3 3 20 3 4 0 Since most of the frequencies(6/12) are zero,so I can simply consider the dataset is "zero-inflated"? In other words, can I judge the dataset is "zero-inflated" simply by the proportion of "zero frequency"? Or,how to judge whether the dataset is "zero-inflated" or not? Q3¡¢How to understand "over-dispersion"? For instance: area nation frequency 1 1 10 1 2 0 1 3 0 1 4 0 2 1 20 2 2 0 2 3 0 2 4 5 3 1 15 3 2 6 3 3 20 3 4 0 Obviously, the frequencies' distribution is of great skewness.So can I judge the dataset is "over-dispersion"? In other words, can I judge the dataset is "over-dispersion" simply by the distribution of all the frequencies? Or,how to judge whether the dataset is "over-dispersion" or not? Thanks a lot for your help. My best. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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