genmod.families.family.Poisson()

statsmodels.genmod.families.family.Poisson

class statsmodels.genmod.families.family.Poisson(link=) [source]

Poisson exponential family.

Parameters:	link : a link instance, optional The default link for the Poisson family is the log link. Available links are log, identity, and sqrt. See statsmodels.family.links for more information.

See also

statsmodels.genmod.families.family.Family, Link Functions

Attributes

Poisson.link	a link instance	The link function of the Poisson instance.
Poisson.variance	varfuncs instance	variance is an instance of statsmodels.genmod.families.family.varfuncs.mu

Methods

deviance(endog, mu[, scale])	Poisson deviance function
fitted(lin_pred)	Fitted values based on linear predictors lin_pred.
loglike(endog, mu[, scale])	Loglikelihood function for Poisson exponential family distribution.
predict(mu)	Linear predictors based on given mu values.
resid_anscombe(endog, mu)	Anscombe residuals for the Poisson exponential family distribution
resid_dev(endog, mu[, scale])	Poisson deviance residual
starting_mu(y)	Starting value for mu in the IRLS algorithm.
weights(mu)	Weights for IRLS steps