ABSTRACT
The profile log-likelihoods that have been developed and used in this book are nonstandard log-likelihoods. They are neither a Poisson log-likelihood nor any of the log-likelihoods available in the standard generalized linear model family. This makes them less attractive to use one of the existing statistical packages such as STATA, S-plus, MINITAB, or any other package that offers macro-like programming.
