Generalized Linear Models and Extensions

This book presents a wide range of topics to address the needs of several groups of users of rapidly growing methods of generalized linear models. Since the introduction of the idea of generalized linear models (GLM) in early seventies, during the past four decades the modelling of statistical data have experienced a major transformation from linear models based on normality assumption to a more flexible unified approach of generalized linear models.  The number of readers and users of gene