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Poisson Regression

A Poisson regression is another type of GLM. This requires integers or count data (i.e., 0, 1, 2, 3, …). For some situations, a Poisson regression can be more powerful (e.g., detecting statistically significantly trends) than a linear model or "Gaussian" regression.

During this exercise, we're going to build a linear regression using the lm() function and a Poisson regression using glm().

The objects x and y are loaded into R for you.

Deze oefening maakt deel uit van de cursus

Hierarchical and Mixed Effects Models in R

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Oefeninstructies

  • Build an lm() where y is predicted by x and then print the summary.
  • Build a glm() where y is predicted by x with a "poisson" distribution function and then print the summary to the terminal.
  • Examine the coefficient estimates for each and notice how only the glm() produces statistically significant estimates for x.

Praktische interactieve oefening

Probeer deze oefening eens door deze voorbeeldcode in te vullen.

# Fit the linear model
summary(lm(___))

# Fit the generalized linear model
summary(glm(___, family = "___"))
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