Chapter 6 A regression model stack

Moreover, statistical techniques are always developing.

Good introductory texts to veterinary epidemiology include

and indeed specialist texts on spatial epidemiology using specific analytical techniques, including the R-INLA package

6.1 Linear models

6.2 Typical Issues for epidemiological data

6.3 Mixed effect models

6.4 Generalised additive models

6.5 Frequentist vs Bayesian approaches to regression modelling

6.6 A frequentist approach

6.6.1 glmmTMB

6.6.2 mgcv

6.6.3 model selection and averaging

6.6.3.1 collinearity

6.6.4 inference with marginal predictions

6.6.4.1 balancing data

6.6.4.2 inference for ordinal non-inferiority

6.6.5 regression diagnostics

6.7 A Bayesian approach

6.7.1 R-INLA

6.8 regression models for observational studies