“…This mixture distribution has become the foundation of much methodological development in zero-inflated count data analysis. Some authors have made the inferences on the existence of zero inflation in the count data (e.g., El-Shaarawi, 1985;van den Broek, 1995;Deng & Paul, 2000;Ridout, Hinde, & Demétrio, 2001;Jansakul & Hinde, 2002;Thas & Rayner, 2005); others have constructed various ZIP regression models. The seminal work on ZIP regression by Lambert (1992) was used to model the extra proportion of zeros π and the mean of the Poisson distribution λ simultaneously with linear predictors using the appropriate link functions, and the parametric ZIP regression model was applied to the manufacturing data.…”