# Modeling Zero-Inflation on continuous outcome

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**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://discourse.pymc.io/t/modeling-zero-inflation-on-continuous-outcome/6792 "2021-02-18T19:15:24Z")\
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@ricardoV94 - It’s sort of both, but closer to a hard boundary - 70% of the data set is exactly 0. The zeros do have a very informative value for the modeling goal, they’re cases in which an initial threshold was not passed, so no value was accumulated.

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