Any home gardener knows they have to tailor their watering regime for different plants. Forgetting to water their flowerbed ...

Mixed linear model (MLM) ... Model fit was examined with three criteria: negative log likelihood, adjusted Akaike information criterion and Bayesian information content.

Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

“We found that plants don’t respond to water stress in a simple, straight-line way,” said senior author Kelly Caylor, a ...

Multiple regression and regression diagnostics. Generalised linear models; the exponential family, the linear predictor, link functions, analysis of deviance, parameter estimation, deviance residuals.

GLMs unify other statistical models. In the early 1970s, statisticians had difficulty in analysing data where the random variation of the errors did not come from the bell-shaped normal distribution.