Diagnosing overdispersion in longitudinal analyses with grouped nominal polytomous data
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| author | Salvador, Maria Letícia Palma, Gabriel Rodrigues Moral, Rafael de Andrade de Lara, Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues |
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| contents | Experiments in Agricultural Sciences often involve the analysis of longitudinal nominal polytomous variables, both in individual and grouped structures. Marginal and mixed-effects models are two common approaches. The distributional assumptions induce specific mean-variance relationships, however, in many instances, the observed variability is greater than assumed by the model. This characterizes overdispersion, whose identification is crucial for choosing an appropriate modeling framework to make inferences reliable. We propose an initial exploration of constructing a longitudinal multinomial dispersion index as a descriptive and diagnostic tool. This index is calculated as the ratio between the observed and assumed variances. The performance of this index was evaluated through a simulation study, employing statistical techniques to assess its initial performance in different scenarios. We identified that as the index approaches one, it is more likely that this corresponds to a high degree of overdispersion. Conversely, values closer to zero indicate a low degree of overdispersion. As a case study, we present an application in animal science, in which the behaviour of pigs (grouped in stalls) is evaluated, considering three response categories. |
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| spellingShingle | Diagnosing overdispersion in longitudinal analyses with grouped nominal polytomous data Salvador, Maria Letícia Palma, Gabriel Rodrigues Moral, Rafael de Andrade de Lara, Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues Methodology Quantitative Methods Experiments in Agricultural Sciences often involve the analysis of longitudinal nominal polytomous variables, both in individual and grouped structures. Marginal and mixed-effects models are two common approaches. The distributional assumptions induce specific mean-variance relationships, however, in many instances, the observed variability is greater than assumed by the model. This characterizes overdispersion, whose identification is crucial for choosing an appropriate modeling framework to make inferences reliable. We propose an initial exploration of constructing a longitudinal multinomial dispersion index as a descriptive and diagnostic tool. This index is calculated as the ratio between the observed and assumed variances. The performance of this index was evaluated through a simulation study, employing statistical techniques to assess its initial performance in different scenarios. We identified that as the index approaches one, it is more likely that this corresponds to a high degree of overdispersion. Conversely, values closer to zero indicate a low degree of overdispersion. As a case study, we present an application in animal science, in which the behaviour of pigs (grouped in stalls) is evaluated, considering three response categories. |
| title | Diagnosing overdispersion in longitudinal analyses with grouped nominal polytomous data |
| topic | Methodology Quantitative Methods |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15061 |