Estimation of Zero-Inflation Parameter in
Zero-Inflated Poisson Model

K.M. Sakthivel; C.S. Rajitha

doi:https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V56P519

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Volume 56 | Number 2 | Year 2018 | Article Id. IJMTT-V56P519 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V56P519

Estimation of Zero-Inflation Parameter in Zero-Inflated Poisson Model

K.M. Sakthivel, C.S. Rajitha

Abstract

The modelling of count data is extensively used in many fields of research. There is handful of zero-inflated probability models available in literature. Among these models, zero inflated Poisson distribution is one of the widely used models for modelling data with excess number of zeros. In all the zero-inflated models, one can have parameter called zero-inflation parameter which is in addition to the number of parameters in underlying distribution. The estimation of the zero-inflation parameter of the zeroinflated Poisson (ZIP) models by MLE do not have an explicit expression and solved iteratively by using modern computing techniques. In this paper, we proposed a probability based inflation estimator (PBIE) for making inferences about the inflation parameter of the ZIP model and also studied the performance of the proposed estimator for simulated data.

Keywords

mean squared error, MLE, moment estimators, zero-inflation Parameter, zero-Inflated Poisson Model.

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Citation :

K.M. Sakthivel, C.S. Rajitha, "Estimation of Zero-Inflation Parameter in Zero-Inflated Poisson Model," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 135-140, 2018. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V56P519