Adam Errington adam.errington@durham.ac.uk
PGR Student Doctor of Philosophy
The effect of data aggregation on dispersion estimates in count data models
Errington, Adam; Einbeck, Jochen; Cumming, Jonathan; Rössler, Ute; Endesfelder, David
Authors
Professor Jochen Einbeck jochen.einbeck@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Dr Jonathan Cumming j.a.cumming@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor
Ute Rössler
David Endesfelder
Abstract
For the modelling of count data, aggregation of the raw data over certain subgroups or predictor configurations is common practice. This is, for instance, the case for count data biomarkers of radiation exposure. Under the Poisson law, count data can be aggregated without loss of information on the Poisson parameter, which remains true if the Poisson assumption is relaxed towards quasi-Poisson. However, in biodosimetry in particular, but also beyond, the question of how the dispersion estimates for quasi-Poisson models behave under data aggregation have received little attention. Indeed, for real data sets featuring unexplained heterogeneities, dispersion estimates can increase strongly after aggregation, an effect which we will demonstrate and quantify explicitly for some scenarios. The increase in dispersion estimates implies an inflation of the parameter standard errors, which, however, by comparison with random effect models, can be shown to serve a corrective purpose. The phenomena are illustrated by y-H2AX foci data as used for instance in radiation biodosimetry for the calibration of dose-response curves.
Citation
Errington, A., Einbeck, J., Cumming, J., Rössler, U., & Endesfelder, D. (2022). The effect of data aggregation on dispersion estimates in count data models. International Journal of Biostatistics, 18(1), 183-202. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijb-2020-0079
| Journal Article Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Acceptance Date | Apr 21, 2021 |
| Online Publication Date | May 7, 2021 |
| Publication Date | 2022-05 |
| Deposit Date | May 19, 2021 |
| Publicly Available Date | Aug 20, 2021 |
| Journal | International Journal of Biostatistics |
| Print ISSN | 1557-4679 |
| Electronic ISSN | 2194-573X |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 183-202 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1515/ijb-2020-0079 |
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