Re: [R] Underdispersion and count data

2013-11-07 Thread Achim Zeileis
On Thu, 7 Nov 2013, sv.j...@yahoo.ca wrote: Hello, I have count data for 4 groups, 2 of which have a large number of zeroes and are overdispersed, and the other 2 underdispersed with no zeroes. Are you sure that it's really underdispersion in addition to the lack of zeros? It could also be

[R] Underdispersion and count data

2013-11-07 Thread sv.j...@yahoo.ca
Hello, I have count data for 4 groups, 2 of which have a large number of zeroes and are overdispersed, and the other 2 underdispersed with no zeroes. I have two questions about model fitting, which I am quite new to, and have been using mostly the pscl package. 1 - How do I deal with underdisp