multinomial function

Family Object for Multinomial Model

The Multinomial model is not part of the standard family. The implementation is based on Chapter 6 in Fahrmeir et al. (2013).

multinomial()

Returns

An object of class familyLMMsolver with the following components: - family: character string with the family name.

• linkfun: the link function.

• linkinv: the inverse of the link function.

• dev.resids: function giving the deviance for each observation as a function of (y, mu, wt)

References

Fahrmeir, Ludwig, Thomas Kneib, Stefan Lang, Brian Marx, Regression models. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.