Specifies the information required to fit a Negative Binomial generalized
linear model, with known theta
parameter, using glm()
.
negative.binomial(theta = stop("'theta' must be specified"), link = "log")
The known value of the additional parameter, theta
.
The link function, as a character string, name or one-element
character vector specifying one of log
, sqrt
or identity
, or an object of class
"link-glm"
.
An object of class "family"
, a list of functions and
expressions needed by glm()
to fit a Negative Binomial
generalized linear model.
Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999) Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS. Third Edition. Springer.
# NOT RUN {
# Fitting a Negative Binomial model to the quine data
# with theta = 2 assumed known.
#
glm(Days ~ .^4, family = negative.binomial(2), data = quine)
# }
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