brglm2: Bias Reduction in Generalized Linear Models

Estimation and inference from generalized linear models based on various methods for bias reduction and maximum penalized likelihood with powers of the Jeffreys prior as penalty. The 'brglmFit' fitting method can achieve reduction of estimation bias by solving either the mean bias-reducing adjusted score equations in Firth (1993) <doi:10.1093/biomet/80.1.27> and Kosmidis and Firth (2009) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asp055>, or the median bias-reduction adjusted score equations in Kenne et al. (2017) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asx046>, or through the direct subtraction of an estimate of the bias of the maximum likelihood estimator from the maximum likelihood estimates as in Cordeiro and McCullagh (1991) <https://www.jstor.org/stable/2345592>. See Kosmidis et al (2020) <doi:10.1007/s11222-019-09860-6> for more details. Estimation in all cases takes place via a quasi Fisher scoring algorithm, and S3 methods for the construction of of confidence intervals for the reduced-bias estimates are provided. In the special case of generalized linear models for binomial and multinomial responses (both ordinal and nominal), the adjusted score approaches to mean and media bias reduction have been found to return estimates with improved frequentist properties, that are also always finite, even in cases where the maximum likelihood estimates are infinite (e.g. complete and quasi-complete separation; see Kosmidis and Firth, 2020 <doi:10.1093/biomet/asaa052>, for a proof for mean bias reduction in logistic regression).

Version: 0.9.2
Depends: R (≥ 3.3.0)
Imports: MASS, stats, Matrix, graphics, nnet, enrichwith, numDeriv
Suggests: detectseparation, knitr, rmarkdown, covr, tinytest, VGAM, brglm, mbrglm
Published: 2023-10-11
Author: Ioannis Kosmidis ORCID iD [aut, cre], Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui [aut], Kjell Konis [ctb], Nicola Sartori [ctb]
Maintainer: Ioannis Kosmidis <ioannis.kosmidis at warwick.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/ikosmidis/brglm2/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/ikosmidis/brglm2
NeedsCompilation: yes
Citation: brglm2 citation info
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: brglm2 results

Documentation:

Reference manual: brglm2.pdf
Vignettes: Adjacent category logit models using **brglm2**
Estimating the exponential of regression parameters using **brglm2**
Bias reduction in generalized linear models
Multinomial logistic regression using **brglm2**
Negative binomial regression using **brglm2**

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Package source: brglm2_0.9.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: brglm2_0.9.2.zip, r-release: brglm2_0.9.2.zip, r-oldrel: brglm2_0.9.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): brglm2_0.9.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): brglm2_0.9.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): brglm2_0.9.2.tgz
Old sources: brglm2 archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: pawscore, ProSGPV
Reverse imports: ExactMed, PPSFS, smcfcs, SOIL
Reverse suggests: cobalt, detectseparation, ggeffects, marginaleffects, parameters, WeightIt

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