Applying generalized linear models (Q4348643)

Generalized linear models provide a unified approach to many of the most common statistical procedures used in applied statistics and have applications in various disciplines. This is a book about statistical modelling. The reader is assumed to have knowledge of basic statistical principles, whether from a Bayesian, frequentist, or direct likelihood point of view, being familiar at least with the analysis of the simpler normal linear models, regression and ANOVA. The book is divided into 10 chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the generalized linear models in some detail. Simple log linear and logistic models are used, in Chapter 2, to introduce the first major application of generalized linear models. These log linear models are shown, in turn, in Chapter 3, to encompass generalized linear models as a special case. More general regression techniques are developed, through applications to growth curves, in Chapter 4. In Chapter 5, some methods of handling dependent data are described through the application of conditional regression models to longitudinal data. Applications of generalized linear models to survival and duration data are covered in Chapters 6 and 7, followed by spatial models in Chapter 8. Normal linear models are discussed in Chapter 9, with special reference to model checking by comparing them to nonlinear and non-normal models. Finally, the unifying methods of dynamic generalized linear models for dependent data are presented in Chapter 10, the most difficult in the text. This book will be useful to research workers in applied statistics using generalized linear models.