Introducing glmlab

Peter K Dunn
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
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November 17, 1999

  • Acknowledgements
  • A Note on What You Read
  • Contact Information
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Why glmlab?
  • 1.2 What can glmlab do?
  • 1.3 Installing glmlab
  • 1.3.1 The PC Version of MATLAB
  • 1.3.2 The UNIX Version of MATLAB
  • 1.4 Directory Structure
  • 2 Starting with MATLAB
  • 2.1 Basic Use of MATLAB
  • 2.2 Obtaining Help from MATLAB
  • 2.3 Using Data Files
  • 2.4 Using MATLAB for Plotting
  • 2.5 Other Miscellaneous MATLAB Commands
  • Some Examples
  • 3 glmlab Reference
  • 3.1 The Main Window Items
  • 3.1.1 The File Menu
  • 3.1.2 The Distributions Menu
  • 3.1.3 The Link Menu
  • 3.1.4 The Scale Parameter Menu
  • 3.1.5 The Residuals Type Menu
  • 3.1.6 The Options Menu
  • 3.1.7 The Plots Menu
  • 3.1.8 The Help Menu
  • 3.2 The Main Window Edit Areas
  • 3.2.1 The Response Area
  • 3.2.2 The Covariates Area
  • 3.2.3 The Prior Weights Area
  • 3.2.4 The Offset Area
  • 3.3 The Main Window Buttons
  • 3.3.1 QUIT
  • 3.3.2 FIT SPECIFIED MODEL
  • 3.3.3 NEW MODEL
  • 3.4 Extra Commands
  • 3.4.1 fac
  • 3.4.2 makefac
  • 3.4.3 The @ Character
  • 3.5 Returned Variables
  • 4 Examples Using glmlab
  • 4.1 Example: Multiple Regression
  • 4.2 Example: Log-Linear Models
  • 5 Advanced Topics and Examples
  • 5.1 Offsets
  • 5.2 Default Settings for Distributions
  • 5.3 Changing the Scale Parameter
  • 5.4 Example: A Generalised Linear Model
  • 5.5 Example: Binomial Distributions
  • 5.6 User Defined Links and Distributions
  • 5.7 Example: User Defined Distributions
  • 5.8 The Default Data Directory
  • 5.9 npplot
  • 5.10 Changing the Fitting Parameters
  • References
  • Index
  • Footnotes
    • Peter Dunn