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Generalized linear models

This chapter covers

Formulating a generalized linear model

Predicting categorical outcomes

Modeling count data

In chapters 8 (regression) and 9 (ANOVA), we explored linear models that can be used to predict a normally distributed response variable from a set of continuous and/or categorical predictor variables. But there are many situations in which it’s unreasonable to assume that the dependent variable is normally distributed (or even continuous). For example:

The outcome variable may be categorical. Binary variables (for example, yes/ no, passed/failed, lived/died) and polytomous variables (for example, poor/good/excellent, republican/democrat/independent) clearly aren’t normally distributed.

The outcome variable may be a count (for example, number of traffic accidents in a week, number of drinks per day). Such variables take on a limited number of values and are never negative. Additionally, their mean and variance are often related (which isn’t true for normally distributed variables).

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