Random Effects with count Models

Question

I'm trying to do a hurdle model with random effects in either r or stata. I've looked at the glmmADMB package, but am running into problems getting it download in R and I can't find any documentation on the package in Cran. Is this package still available? Has anyone used it successfully to estimate a hurdle model with random effects?

Alternatively, is there a way to estimate this in stata? Is there a way to estimate random effects with any type of count data in stata?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Jennifer

Answer 1

In Stata, xtnbreg and xtpoisson have the random effects estimator as the default option. You can always estimate the two parts separately by hand. See the count-data chapter of Cameron and Trivedi's Stata book for cross-sectional examples.

You also have the user-written hplogit and hnlogit for hurdle count models. These use a logit/probit for the first-stage and a zero-truncated poisson/negative binomial for the second stage. Also, a finite mixture model might be a nice approach (see user-written fmm). There's also ztpnm. All these are cross-sectional models.