Practical Computing Exercise for Week 7:

Download the template R markdown file for this workshop.

Aims of this practical exercise

In this exercise you will:

  • Compare links for the Gamma family.

predict patient survival in a Drug trial based on age and type of drug. Obtain the data using:

    data(Cancer, package="ELMER")

Fit a GLM and compare the use of link=log to link=identity.

Solutions

You should compare your work with the solutions for this workshop.