Closed JacobElder closed 4 months ago
There's unfortunately no native support for poisson models. StepMix was designed to support new distributions relatively easily so we could in principle support this if we find someone to help with the implementation.
Alternatively you could create bins for your count data and treat it as a categorical measurement. The last bin would represent the tail of your measurements (e.g., all counts above 10). Let me tag @ericlacourse and @FelixLaliberte to see if they have additional comments.
Hi,
Thank you for your question. I would also suggest treating count data as a categorical indicators. This method, while not perfect, provides a workable solution until Poisson distribution is implemented in StepMix.
Thank you @sachaMorin and @FelixLaliberte for the suggestion. I was considering treating count as categorical but was concerned about the number of levels, but I like the idea of the last level/bin denoting the tail of measurements. I'll implement that!
Thanks for the work on the package. Great package.
Hi,
I see that the package provides support for binary, categorical, and continuous data. Is there any support for count data? If there is not any direct support for count data in StepMix, is there a best solution to handling of count data using StepMix?