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Chapter 7

Regression generalizations and

modeling

This chapter extends the discussion of linear regression introduced in Chapter 6 to include

many commonly used statistical methods and models. The CRAN statistics for the social

sciences task view provides an excellent overview of methods described here and in Chapter

6.

7.1 Generalized linear models

Table 7.1 displays the options to specify link functions and family of distributions for gen-

eralized linear models [111]. Description of several specific generalized linear regression

models (e.g., logistic and Poisson) can be found in subsequent sections ...