TY - JOUR AU - Song, Xiaoxiao AU - Tao, Tao AU - Zhao, Qi AU - Yang, Fuqiang AU - Lars, Palm AU - Vinod, Diwan AU - Yuan, Hui AU - Xu, Biao PY - 2013/03/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Applying Zero-inflated Mixed Model to School Absenteeism Surveillance in Rural China JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4421 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/4421 SP - AB - Absenteeism has great advantages in promoting the early detection of epidemics. Distribution of the data generally are asymmetry, zero inflation, truncation and non-independence. In order to handle these encumbrances, we should apply the Zero-inflated Mixed Model (ZIMM). ER -