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Quasi-Likelihood Functions, Generalized Linear Models, and the Gauss-Newton Method
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To define a likelihood we have to specify the form of distribution of the observations, but to define a quasi-likelihood function we need only specify a relation between the mean and variance of the observations and the quasi-likelihood can then be used for estimation. For a one-parameter exponential family the log likelihood is the same as the quasi-likelihood and it follows that assuming a one-parameter exponential family is the weakest sort of distributional assumption that can be made. The Gauss-Newton method for calculating nonlinear least squares estimates generalizes easily to deal with maximum quasi-likelihood estimates, and a rearrangement of this produces a generalization of the method described by Nelder & Wedderburn (1972).
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“The quasi-likelihood estimation approach is also robust to missing data values.”
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“Provided that the data are missing completely at random (MCAR) or missing at random (MAR), the quasi-likelihood estimation procedure yields unbiased parameter estimates based on all (complete or partial) observations.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wedderburn, R. W. M.
- Affiliations
- Rothamsted Research (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Wedderburn, R. W. M.
- Venue
- Biometrika
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1974-12
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 439
- ISSN
- 0006-3444 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1979159029
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- FWCI
- 2.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Locations
- Biometrika (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Statistical and numerical algorithms
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications
- Keywords
- generalized linear models, Gauss-Newton method, exponential family, mean-variance relationship, nonlinear least squares, distributional assumptions
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