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Chapter 13: Extra Problems

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In previous chapters, problems were supplied relevant to the material in that chapter. In this final chapter, we present a series of problems without the chapter context, and often with less direction for modelling the data.

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    Peter K. Dunn

  2. Bioinformatics Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, VIC, Australia

    Gordon K. Smyth

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Dunn, P.K., Smyth, G.K. (2018). Chapter 13: Extra Problems. In: Generalized Linear Models With Examples in R. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0118-7_13

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