The distribution of FHFV is positively skewed and bounded by zero.

This means that there is a large stack

of individuals who are anti FHFV. This distribution reflects that FHFV is count data, representing a total
number of perceptions of Family honor of female virginity. The statistical models that assume normally
distributed residuals will provide poor fit to such data and will lead to incorrect confidence intervals
and p-values. In such cases, count models are much more appropriate to use. Moreover, count
outcomes will also typically violate the equal variances (i.e., homoskedasticity) assumption of OLS
models as count outcomes have a direct relationship between their mean and variance, where higher
levels of the outcome have greater variance. The negative binomial model extends the Poisson model by
allowing the mean and variance to be different. However, when there is a clear stack of zeroes in the
data and especially when the non-zero distribution is not a smooth extension from the zeroes, zero-
inflated models may be appropriate.

As you can see the distribution of FHFV is positively skewed and bounded by zero. This means that there
is a large stack of individuals who are anti FHFV. The distribution reflects count data and rejects the
assumption of normality and the equal variances (i.e., homoskedasticity). Therefore, The negative
binomial zero inflated model is a good fit for such data. Firstly, negative binomial allows the mean and
variance to be different. Zero inflation assumes two types of groups in the data; one always zero, where
probability of non-zero value is not taken in account and the second, non-zero chance of positive count
value, where the probability is variable but not zero. The membership of group is decided by logit model
and in this case, negative binomial regression is used to model the non-zero group and probabilities are
based on them.

The first set of coefficients is from the equation predicting counts for the Not Always Zero group. As
you can see, all predictors are not significant except for Religious Practice. The increase in Religious
Practice increases perception on FHFV.
The second set of coefficients is from the equation that predicts membership in Always Zero group.
These can be interpreted as logit coefficients. This shows that each unit increase in Religious Belief
increases the odds of FHFV by 0.94.

The graph here shows predicted percentage change in FHFV by Religious Belief and Practice for both
Count and Zero-Inflated model. Looking at count model, where religious practice was significant. So,
each SD unit in religious practice, increase FHFV by 24%. While in zero inflated model, religious belief is
only significant. So, each SD unit increase in Religious belief, decreases being part of always zero group
that is someone who is Anti-FHFV, decreases by 46.4%.