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#statstab #266 When to use negative binomial and Poisson regression

Thoughts: A heated debate and condemnation of NB by @noah_greifer. Seems term confusion is also an issue in the field.

#poisson #regression #negativebinomial #countdata #overdispersion

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When to use negative binomial and Poisson regression
When would one use a negative binomial regression and when would one use Poisson regression with respect to the mean and variance?
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January 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
#statstab #591 What is Incidence Rate Ratio?

Thoughts: A simple overview, but can be a starting point for IRRs in count models.

#irr #regression #stats #poisson #negativebinomial #effectsize

www.statology.org/incidence-ra...
What is Incidence Rate Ratio? (Definition & Example)
This tutorial provides an explanation of incidence rate ratio, including a formal definition and an example.
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August 10, 2026 at 12:47 PM
#statstab #599 Non-normal hierarchical regression & classification

Thoughts: Comprehensive #r tutorial for binary and count analysis with #brms

#logisticregression #count #poisson #negativebinomial #rstats #guide #tutorial #bayes #bayesian

bayesf22-notebook.classes.andrewheiss.com/bayes-rules/...
bayesf22 Notebook - 18: Non-normal hierarchical regression & classification
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August 20, 2026 at 4:47 PM
#statstab #576 Zero Truncated Negative Binomial Weighted Weibull Distribution and Its Application

Thoughts: Lots of cool work with new distributions for specific data/scenarios. Let's move beyond Normal.

#negativebinomial #weibull #distributions #MLE

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Zero Truncated Negative Binomial Weighted Weibull Distribution and Its Application - Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics
Abstract In this article, we propose two new discrete distributions, the negative binomial-weighted Weibull and the zero truncated negative binomial-weighted Weibull distributions. Some statistical pr...
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July 7, 2026 at 2:27 PM
#statstab #430 Modelling Count Data in Psychological Research: An Applied Tutorial

Thoughts: A fairly comprehensive frequentist tutorial. Covers some edge cases, but doesn't explain them well.

#count #poisson #negativebinomial #IRR #tutorial #education

doi.org/10.1002/ijop...
Modelling Count Data in Psychological Research: An Applied Tutorial
Across subfields of psychology, researchers frequently encounter count variables (i.e., non-negative integer values, which result from counted measurements). Although count variables are common in ps....
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October 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A #probability story problem: "The Little Match Girl"

Pat sells boxes of matches door to door, with a probability p = 0.4 of selling a box at each house. What's the chance she will exhaust all 30 houses in the village before selling the 5th box?

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December 2, 2024 at 1:53 AM