Arbeitspapier

A dynamic hurdle model for zero-inflated count data: With an application to health care utilization

A Dynamic Hurdle Model for Zero-Inflated Count Data: With an Application to Health Care UtilizationExcess zeros are encountered in many empirical count data applications. We provide a new explanation of extra zeros, related to the underlying stochastic process that generates events. The process has two rates, a lower rate until the first event, and a higher one thereafter. We derive the corresponding distribution of the number of events during a fixed period and extend it to account for observed and unobserved heterogeneity. An application to the socio-economic determinants of the individual number of doctor visits in Germany illustrates the usefulness of the new approach.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 648

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
Health: General
Thema
excess zeros
Poisson process
exposure
hurdle model

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Baetschmann, Gregori
Winkelmann, Rainer
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2014

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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Baetschmann, Gregori
  • Winkelmann, Rainer
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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