Penalized likelihood methods for modeling count data

DOI10.1080/02664763.2022.2103101MaRDI QIDQ6089431zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cornelis J. Potgieter, Akihito Kamata

Publication date 14 December 2023

Published in Journal of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14010

zbMATH Keywords

count data modelscross-validationempirical success probabilityparameter shrinkagepenalized maximum likelihood

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX) Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics to psychology (62P15)

Abstract: The paper considers parameter estimation in count data models using penalized likelihood methods. The motivating data consists of multiple independent count variables with a moderate sample size per variable. The data were collected during the assessment of oral reading fluency (ORF) in school-aged children. A sample of fourth-grade students were given one of ten available passages to read with these differing in length and difficulty. The observed number of words read incorrectly (WRI) is used to measure ORF. Three models are considered for WRI scores, namely the binomial, the zero-inflated binomial, and the beta-binomial. We aim to efficiently estimate passage difficulty, a quantity expressed as a function of the underlying model parameters. Two types of penalty functions are considered for penalized likelihood with respective goals of shrinking parameter estimates closer to zero or closer to one another. A simulation study evaluates the efficacy of the shrinkage estimates using Mean Square Error (MSE) as metric. Big reductions in MSE relative to unpenalized maximum likelihood are observed. The paper concludes with an analysis of the motivating ORF data.

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