CanonicalFamilyExtra: Extra Canonical Link Family Objects for Generalized Linear Models

Extra family objects in "weird" scenarios, particularly logistic or log-linear model with unbounded or non-binary/non-integer outcomes. Provides binomial_extra() and poisson_extra() as generalizations of binomial() and poisson(). The use of canonical link with the corresponding working likelihood in glm() ensures convexity, making model fitting reliable and independent of starting value. Robert WM Wedderburn (1974) <doi:10.1093/biomet/61.3.439> and Peter McCullagh (1983) <doi:10.1214/aos/1176346056> justified this method to fit generalized linear (mean) models with quasi-/working likelihood.

Version:	1.0.0
Imports:	stats
Suggests:	gee, geepack, SuperLearner, ipred, glmnet
Published:	2026-05-06
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.CanonicalFamilyExtra (may not be active yet)
Author:	Hongxiang Qiu [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Hongxiang Qiu <david940408 at gmail.com>
License:	GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	CanonicalFamilyExtra results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

CanonicalFamilyExtra.html , CanonicalFamilyExtra.pdf

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Package source:	CanonicalFamilyExtra_1.0.0.tar.gz
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