Title
A beta-inflated mean regression model with mixed effects for fractional response variables
Date Issued
03 July 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Taylor and Francis Ltd.
Abstract
In this article we propose a new mixed-effects regression model for fractional bounded response variables. Our model allows us to incorporate covariates directly to the expected value, so we can quantify exactly the influence of these covariates in the mean of the variable of interest rather than to the conditional mean. Estimation is carried out from a Bayesian perspective. Due to the complexity of the augmented posterior distribution, we use a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm, the No-U-Turn sampler, implemented using the Stan software. A simulation study was performed showing that our model has a better performance than other traditional longitudinal models for bounded variables. Finally, we applied our beta-inflated mean mixed-effects regression model to real data which consists of utilization of credit lines in the peruvian financial system.
Start page
1936
End page
1957
Volume
88
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la computación Estadísticas, Probabilidad
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85041303408
Source
Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
ISSN of the container
00949655
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