10.26: Poisson regression

Learning objectives

  • Identify when to use a poisson regression model

  • Interpret a poisson regression model

  • Generate a poisson regression model in R

Classwise videos

If you have questions as you watch the videos, feel free to send me an email or slack message! I will address common questions at the beginning of class.

If you want to type the code as you follow along the lecture, you can use the following code to load the data:

pdat <- read.csv("https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stat/data/poisson_sim.csv")

Textbook

ISLR 4.6.2

Application exercise

Groups for this week

ISLR Lab 4.7.7

Write interpretations for a few of the coefficient estimates (use the lecture slide titled “Interpretation” as a guide)