It has been difficult to shake the linear communications model that many of us were taught. The underlying assumption of the linear model – that the goal of effective communication is to get a message ...

In this module, we will introduce generalized linear models (GLMs) through the study of binomial data. In particular, we will motivate the need for GLMs; introduce the binomial regression model, ...

In the early 1970s, statisticians had difficulty in analysing data where the random variation of the errors did not come from the bell-shaped normal distribution. Besides normality, these traditional ...