(This article was first published on John Myles White » Statistics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
As a quick note, here are two R packages that were mentioned to me recently and that look promising: reldist and mixtools.
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
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