Contents Preface xiii1 Linear regression 1 1.1 Simple linear regression 2 1.

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Multiple linear regression 10 1.3 Qualitative predictors: ANOVA and ANCOVA models
16 1.3.1 ANOVA models 16 1.3.2 ANCOVA models 20 1.4 Random-effects models 24 1.5
Polynomial regression 26 Exercises 312 Nonlinear regression 41 2.1 Estimation and
testing 42 2.2 Piecewise regression models 44 2.3 Exponential regression models 55
2.4 Growth curves 65 2.4.1 Gompertz model 66 2.4.2 Logistic growth curves 69 2.4.3
Weibull growth curves 79 2.5 Rational polynomials 83 2.5.1 Michaelis�Menten model
83 2.5.2 Morgan�Mercer�Flodin model 87 2.6 Multiple nonlinear regression 89
Exercises 913 Generalized linear models 103 3.1 Generalizing the classical linear
model 104 3.1.1 Non-normal data and the exponential class 104 3.1.2 Linking the
mean response to the predictor variables 106 3.2 Theory of generalized linear
models 107 3.2.1 Estimation via maximum likelihood 108 3.2.2 Deviance function 109