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SUMMARY: Efron, B. (1986, JASA). Double exponential families

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From: Andreas Christmann <A.Christmann@hrz.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 09:34:10 +0200
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Some days ago I asked whether someone has S-PLUS (or R) code for the
method proposed by
 Efron B. (1986).
Double exponential families and their use in generalized linear regression. JASA 83:709-721.
I got the following two results.
The website for the code dglm mentioned by Hugh Jones concerning an estimation 
method
proposed by Smyth and Verbyla (1999) seems to be now:

http://www.statsci.org/s/dglm.html
http://www.statsci.org/s/digammaf.html
http://www.statsci.org/s/polygamm.html
http://www.statsci.org/s/tweedief.html

Thank you,

Andreas

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HUGH JONES wrote:

I recently came across a paper by Smyth, G.K., and Verbyla, A.P. (1999). Adjusted likelihood methods for modelling dispersion in Generalized Linear Models. Environmetrics 10: 695-709. These authors consider double generalized models for modelling both mean and dispersion simultaneously. Is this what Efron's paper is about? They wrote two functions for applying double GLMs called dglm( ) and a new error family tweedie based on work by Tweedie 1984 (An index which distinguishes between some important exponential families. In, 'Statistics: Applications and New Directions' (eds Ghosh & Roy))

These are available from http://www.maths.uq.edu.au/~gks/s/



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JEFF SIMONOFF wrote:

James Lindsey, in his 1995 book _Modelling Frequency and Count Data_
(Clarendon Press) shows how distributions of this type (without
covariates, however) can be easily fit using standard loglinear (Poisson
regression) software - see pages 125-132. I would be interested to hear
about ready-made software for the regression (covariate) case, however.





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