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multinomial

The multinomial family


Description

This function is a returns a family and is a generalization of binomial. users would only need to call it when calling change with what = "family", to = multinomial(link = 'logit')

Usage

multinomial(link = "logit")

Arguments

link

character string among those supported by binomial

Details

This function is mostly cosmetic. The family slot for an object of unordered-categorical-class must be multinomial(link = 'logit'). For an object of ordered-categorical-class but not its subclasses, the family slot must be multinomial() but the link function can differ from its default ("logit")

Value

A family object

Author(s)

Ben Goodrich and Jonathan Kropko, for this version, based on earlier versions written by Yu-Sung Su, Masanao Yajima, Maria Grazia Pittau, Jennifer Hill, and Andrew Gelman.

See Also

Examples

multinomial()

mi

Missing Data Imputation and Model Checking

v1.0
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Andrew Gelman [ctb], Jennifer Hill [ctb], Yu-Sung Su [aut], Masanao Yajima [ctb], Maria Pittau [ctb], Ben Goodrich [cre, aut], Yajuan Si [ctb], Jon Kropko [aut]
Initial release
2015-04-16

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