GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL
The generalized linear model is, as the title suggests, a more general form of the classic linear model.
Given a set of explanatory variables
the response values follow a distribution from the exponential family.
For instance, the response variable may be count data, so that the errors have a Poisson distribution.
can be found by Fisher Scoring, an iterative procedure.
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