Research Article

On Zero-Inflated Hierarchical Poisson Models with Application to Maternal Mortality Data

Table 3

Maternal mortality data. Parameter estimates and standard errors (s.e.) for the zero-inflated Poisson GLMM (ZIPG).

Estimates (s.e.)Pr (>│z│)

ZIPG
Conditional model
Intercept2.3553 (0.3884)<0.001
Referral in0.0010 (0.0003)<0.001
Referral out−0.0143 (0.0030)<0.001
Malaria−0.0008 (0.0005)0.150
HIV/AIDS−0.0017 (0.0022)0.434
Doctors−0.7479 (0.0192)<0.001
Midwives0.0978 (0.0042)<0.001
ANC0.0015 (0.0006)<0.001

Zero-inflation model
Intercept3.6729 (0.5349)<0.001
Referral in−0.0472 (0.0200)0.018
Referral out0.0161 (0.0106)0.129
Midwives−0.2972 (0.0570)<0.001

Random effects
GroupsNameVariance
YearIntercept0.1279
RegionIntercept0.4067