Zero-inflated proportion data models applied to a biological control assay

A. M. C. Vieira, J. P. Hinde and C. G. B. Demetrio

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2000, vol. 27, issue 3, 373-389

Abstract: Biological control of pests is an important branch of entomology, providing environmentally friendly forms of crop protection. Bioassays are used to find the optimal conditions for the production of parasites and strategies for application in the field. In some of these assays, proportions are measured and, often, these data have an inflated number of zeros. In this work, six models will be applied to data sets obtained from biological control assays for Diatraea saccharalis , a common pest in sugar cane production. A natural choice for modelling proportion data is the binomial model. The second model will be an overdispersed version of the binomial model, estimated by a quasi-likelihood method. This model was initially built to model overdispersion generated by individual variability in the probability of success. When interest is only in the positive proportion data, a model can be based on the truncated binomial distribution and in its overdispersed version. The last two models include the zero proportions and are based on a finite mixture model with the binomial distribution or its overdispersed version for the positive data. Here, we will present the models, discuss their estimation and compare the results.

Date: 2000
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