In Hawaiian legend, Nanaue was the son of a shark who fell in love with a human women. He grew into a murderous man with a shark mouth in the middle of his back. In Greek legend, the minotaur was a man with the head of a bull. He was the spawn of a human woman and a great white bull. The gryphon is a legendary monster that is part eagle and part lion. Maori legends speak of Taniwha, monsters with features of serpents and birds and even sharks, much like the dragons of Chinese and European mythology.
By piecing together parts of different creatures, it's easy to make a monster. Many monsters are hybrids. Many statistical models are too. This chapter is about constructing likelihood and link functions by piecing together ...
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