As the title “Practical Regression” suggests, these notes are a guide to performing regression in practice. This note explains how to choose between log and linear specification. The note emphasizes ...

McCullagh's (1984, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 46, 250-256) approximation to the conditional maximum likelihood estimator in log odds ratio regression models is shown to have ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A robust analysis for field data is proposed using a stratified rank regression model. That analysis follows Pettitt (1982). Alternatively, a ...

Example 29.2: Normal Regression, Log Link Consider the following data, where x is an explanatory variable, and y is the response variable. It appears that y varies nonlinearly with x and that the ...