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When to use poisson regression and negative binomial regression?


Asked by Ryder Rice on Dec 10, 2021 FAQ



Poisson regression and negative binomial regression are useful for analyses where the dependent (response) variable is the count (0, 1, 2, ...) of the number of events or occurrences in an interval.
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Negative binomial regression is interpreted in a similar fashion to logistic regression with the use of odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals. Just like with other forms of regression, the assumptions of linearity, homoscedasticity, and normality have to be met for negative binomial regression.
Moreover, Poisson regression is only used for numerical, continuous data. The same technique can be used for modeling categorical explanatory variables or counts in the cells of a contingency table. When used in this way, the models are called loglinear models.
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As its name implies, the negative binomial shape parameter, k, describes the shape of a negative binomial distribution. In other words, k is only a reasonable measure to the extent that your data represent a negative binomial distribution.
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However, in Minitab they refer to it as binary logistic regression. In many ways a binomial logistic regression can be considered as a multiple linear regression, but for a dichotomous rather than a continuous dependent variable.