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ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a number of topics related to generalize linear models, some of which are of current research interest. In the case of full exponential-family models with canonical link function, such as linear logistic models for binomial data, log-linear models for Poisson data, inverse linear models for exponential data, the approximate bias of the maximum-likelihood estimate can be obtained by a very simple supplementary computation are described. The largest biases here are about 10% of a standard error. In cases of marginal statistical significance biases of this magnitude could have a small effect on the conclusions, but they are unlikely to be of any consequence in example. For non-canonical models the tensor expression for the first-order asymptotic bias of ß^ is a little more complicated because it involves the covariance between the vector of first-order derivatives and the matrix of second-order derivatives of the log-likelihood function.