Cantoni, Eva; Zedini, Asma - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 2009
The excess of zeros is a not a rare feature in count data. Statisticians advocate the Poisson-type hurdle model (among other techniques) as an interesting approach to handle this data peculiarity. However, the frequency of gross errors and the complexity intrinsic to some considered phenomena...