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Title: | Modeling heterogeneity for count data: A study of maternal mortality in health facilities in Mozambique | Authors: | LOQUIHA, Osvaldo HENS, Niel Chavane, Leonardo Temmerman, Marleen AERTS, Marc |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Source: | BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL, 55 (5), p. 647-660 | Abstract: | Count data are very common in health services research, and very commonly the basic Poisson regression model has to be extended in several ways to accommodate several sources of heterogeneity: (i) an excess number of zeros relative to a Poisson distribution, (ii) hierarchical structures, and correlated data, (iii) remaining unexplained sources of overdispersion. In this paper, we propose hierarchical zero-inflated and overdispersed models with independent, correlated, and shared random effects for both components of the mixture model. We show that all different extensions of the Poisson model can be based on the concept of mixture models, and that they can be combined to account for all different sources of heterogeneity. Expressions for the first two moments are derived and discussed. The models are applied to data on maternal deaths and related risk factors within health facilities in Mozambique. The final model shows that the maternal mortality rate mainly depends on the geographical location of the health facility, the percentage of women admitted with HIV and the percentage of referrals from the health facility. | Notes: | Aerts, M (reprint author), Hasselt Univ, Interuniv Inst Biostat & Stat Bioinformat I Biost, Agoralaan 1, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium, marc.aerts@uhasselt.be | Keywords: | Hierarchical model; Maternal mortality; Negative binomial; Overdispersion; Zero-inflated model. | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/16113 | ISSN: | 0323-3847 | e-ISSN: | 1521-4036 | DOI: | 10.1002/bimj.201200233 | ISI #: | 000327816900001 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2014 |
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