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Moment aliasing in a shared zero-inflated count model
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Moment aliasing in a shared zero-inflated count model
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2026-10-07
In
a
shared zero-inflated Gamma-Poisson count model
, write
m
j
=
(
1
−
π
)
μ
j
and
κ
=
(
τ
+
π
)
/
(
1
−
π
)
. Its
first
two
moments
are
Var
(
Y
j
)
=
m
j
+
κ
m
j
2
and
Cov
(
Y
j
,
Y
k
)
=
κ
m
j
m
k
. These
moments
do not separately identify
π
,
τ
, and the component-
mean
intercept: taking
π
′
=
0
,
τ
′
=
κ
and
μ
j
′
=
m
j
gives the same
first
two
moments
. The full count
distribution
can carry
information
absent from the
moments
.
A
consistent estimator
of
a
marginal
mean
ratio
therefore need not consistently estimate
a
structural-zero
fraction
from
a
misspecified
moment
parameterization.
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