of likelihood with distribution of its own • Over-dispersion: counts often more variable than expected, because probabilities/rates are variable • beta-binomial, gamma-Poisson (negative-binomial) • Zero-inflated mixtures
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guarantees you can • specify model correctly • estimate actual process reliably • Bayes not magic, just logic • Simulate “dummy data” • recover estimates • understand the model • Try parameter combinations hostile to estimation, so you know limits of the golem
aka zero-augmented • zero-augmented gamma, example in text • Continuous mixtures for overdispersed counts • beta-binomial • gamma-Poisson • We’ll focus on multilevel models instead