The use of linear models is common; yet many of the important phenomena of developmental psychology are probably nonlinear in nature given that nonlinearity is characteristic of behavioral systems ...

Course TopicsLinear models, generalized linear models, and nonlinear models are examples of parametric regression models because we know the function that describes the relationship between the ...

Course Topics Ordinary linear regression (OLR) assumes that response variables are continuous. Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) provide an extension to OLR since response variables can be continuous ...

A general class of regression models for ordinal data is developed and discussed. These models utilize the ordinal nature of the data by describing various modes of stochastic ordering and this ...