EM algorithm for zero-inflated Poisson regression

ID: em-algorithm-for-zero-inflated-poisson-regression

The expectation-maximization algorithm introduces for a structural zero. Its E-step gives at positive counts and at zero. The M-step maximizes a logistic log-likelihood with fractional responses and a Poisson log-likelihood with weights . With only a binary predictor, write for group size, and ; the explicit updates are and . Log and logit group contrasts recover the regression coefficients, with boundary values interpreted through limits.

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