18  Introduction to generalized linear models (GLM)

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18.1 Prelude with linear models

18.2 GLM basics

18.2.1 Overall structure

18.2.2 Response distributions

18.2.3 Linear predictors

18.3 Common GLMs

18.3.1 GLMs for continuous data

18.3.1.1 Linear regression as a GLM

18.3.1.2 GLMs for overdispersed data

18.3.2 GLMs for count data

18.3.3 GLMs for binary and proportional data

18.4 Deviance and other GLM diagnostics

18.4.1 Deviance

18.4.2 Pseudo-R^2 or not?

18.4.3 AIC and likelihood functions