Proper handling of continuous variables is crucial in healthcare research, for example, within regression modelling for descriptive, explanatory, or predictive purposes. However, inadequate methods ...

Linear functions are fundamental building blocks in mathematics and play a key role in solving real-world problems where the rate of change remains constant. Linear functions arise in a wide range of ...

Even so, we acknowledge that fitting non-linear models can be tricky. To foster the spread of these methods, we make many recommendations for ecologists to follow when their hypotheses lead them ...

We investigate the extension of the nonparametric regression technique of local polynomial fitting with a kernel weight to generalized linear models and quasi-likelihood contexts. In the ordinary ...

If we set β = f (1), then for any real number x, we have f (x) = β x and the graph of this function is the straight line in the plane passing through the origin with slope β.