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 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 irrelevan

Re: [R] Modelling an "incomplete Poisson" distribution ?

2009-04-18 Thread Ben Bolker
Emmanuel Charpentier 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 distribution, o

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 b

[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