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One of the issues that researchers may encounter in count data is having many zeros. One of the solutions to model these data is using zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression models. Recently, researchers have started to model longitudinal count data with time-dependent covariates. However, it has not been considered whether a model with time-dependent covariates provides a better fit than a model with time independent covariates. In this paper, the fit between a mixed ZIP model with time dependent covariates and a mixed ZIP model with time-independent covariates is compared using simulation. Using the deviance information criterion as a measure of fit, we found that the model with time-dependent covariates exhibits a better fit than the model with time-independent covariates.
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