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R Statistics Cookbook

You're reading from   R Statistics Cookbook Over 100 recipes for performing complex statistical operations with R 3.5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802566
Length 448 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Francisco Juretig Francisco Juretig
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with R and Statistics FREE CHAPTER 2. Univariate and Multivariate Tests for Equality of Means 3. Linear Regression 4. Bayesian Regression 5. Nonparametric Methods 6. Robust Methods 7. Time Series Analysis 8. Mixed Effects Models 9. Predictive Models Using the Caret Package 10. Bayesian Networks and Hidden Markov Models 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

GLMs in JAGS

GLMs stand for Generalized Linear Models. It is a generalization of the linear model (that assumes normality) to other distributions of the so-called exponential family (the Gaussian one is also part of this family). This model formulation allows us to fit models using several responses for the dependent variable such as binary, categorical, count, and more. For example, logistic and Poisson regression are two models that are part of this family.

In this example, we will do Bayesian logistic regression (one type of GLM). This model is appropriate when modeling a categorical response that takes two possible values. Possible examples could be modeling whether a customer is going to buy a product or not, or a student is going to pass an exam.

Both STAN and JAGS can handle not only linear regression models, but a wide array of regression models. In this exercise, we will...

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