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Poisson regression is one of a number of regression models for dependent variables that are counts (non-negative integers). A more general model is negative binomial regression. Both have numerous variants.

Poisson regression is a regression in which the dependent variable is a count variable. The Poisson regression is a based on the Poisson distribution. In order to apply the Poisson Regression the Equidispersion Property has to be fulfilled: E[X] = Var[X]. If the Equidispersion Property is not fulfilled the Negative Binomial Regression might be a better approach.

Common variants of the Poisson regression are:

• Zero-inflated Poisson Regression

The dependent variable is a count variable, but many values take on the variable 0.

• Hurdle model with a Poisson hurdle

The dependent variable is a count variable, but many values take on the variable 0. In contrast to the Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression this is a two step procedure with a hurdle process (e.g. Probit hurdle) and a Poisson regression.

• Zero-truncated Poisson

The dependent variable is a count variable which can never take on the variable 0. An example are the number of days a person stays in hospital.

Literature:

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• Cameron, A. C. and Trivedi, P. K. 1998. Regression Analysis of Count Data. New York: Cambridge Press.

• Cameron, A. C. Advances in Count Data Regression Talk for the Applied Statistics Workshop, March 28, 2009. http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/racd/count.html .

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