.modelFamilySpec: Function to specify the model family/link...

In MangoTheCat/autoPricing: This package is for carrying out automated glm pricing analysis for frequency and severity models

Description

Function to specify the model family/link distributions/functions

Usage

.modelFamilySpec(distr="poisson", myLink="log", theta)

Arguments

distr	character string denoting the distribution to use options are "poisson", "binomial", "gaussian", "Gamma", "inverse.gaussian", "quasi", "quasibinomial", "quasipoisson", "negative.binomial"
myLink	character string denoting the link function, e.g. "identity", "log", "logit", "inverse", "1/mu^2"
theta	should be set to the value of theta if the "negative.binomal" distribution is selected

Value

The output is an object of class "family"

Note

This is just a wrapper function for the family() function

Author(s)

Chibisi Chima-Okereke [e-mail]

References

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/stats/html/family.html

Examples

modelFamilySpec("poisson", "log")

MangoTheCat/autoPricing documentation built on May 7, 2019, 2:09 p.m.