Does anyone know of good reference material on exploratory analysis and diagnostic plots for count data?
What diagnostic plots (and perhaps formal tests) do you find most informative for regressions where the outcome is a count variable?  I'm especially interested in Poisson and negative binomial models, as well as zero-inflated and hurdle counterparts of each. Most of the sources I've found simply plot the residuals vs. fitted values without discussion of what these plots "should" look like.  Wisdom and references greatly appreciated. The back story on why I'm asking this, if it's relevant, is .  Related discussions:
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