Advances in Glim and Statistical Modelling: Proceedings of the Glim92 Conference and the 7th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Munich Book

	Preface
	The New Facilities of GLIM4	1
	Model Fitting Applications in GLIM4	6
	Medical Applications in GLIM4	13
	Residuals and Influential Points in Mean Structures Estimated with Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Methods	20
	Fitting the Continuation Ratio Model using GLIM4	27
	A New Approach for the Analysis of Multi-Episode Duration Data	34
	Approaches to Estimation with Errors in Predictors	40
	The Frontit Model: A Stochastic Frontier for Dichotomic Random Variables	48
	Investigation of an Ordered Logistic Model for Consumer Debt	54
	On Link Selection in Generalized Linear Models	60
	Estimation of Heterogeneity - A GLM-Approach	66
	Generalized Linear Models with P-splines	72
	Modelling Excess Mortality of Diabetics: Generalised Linear Models and Dynamic Estimation	78
	Smoothing in Dynamic Generalized Linear Models by Gibbs Sampling	85
	Bias Reduction, the Jeffreys Prior and GLIM	91
	Approximate Predictive Integrals for Dynamic Generalized Linear Models	101
	Symmetric Interaction Models to Study Innovation Processes in the Software Industry	107
	Ordinal Time Series Models with Application to Forest Damage Data	113
	Choosing Between Non-nested Models: A Simulation Approach	119
	A Class of Models for the Simultaneous Analysis of Square Contingency Tables	125
	Estimation of the Parameters of the Bilinear Association Model using the Gibbs Sampler	131
	Marginal Modelling of Correlated Ordinal Data using an n-way Plackett Distribution	139
	The Evaluation of Bank Accounts using Optimized Moving Local Regression	145
	Common Factor Model: Stochastic Model, Data Analysis Technique Or What?	151
	The Design of Experiments to Discriminate Between Two Rival Generalized Linear Models	159
	A Changepoint Model for Infant Survival in the British Births Survey	165
	The Construction of Life and Other Actuarial Graduated Tables using GLIM	175
	Age-Period-Cohort Models: A Comparison of Methods	181
	Estimation of a First Order Autoregressive Process with Poisson Marginals for Count Data	188
	Saddlepoint Approximations for Generalized Linear Models: A Gentle Introduction	195
	Robust Poisson Regression	201
	Parametric and Seminonparametric Analysis of Nonlinear Time Series	207
	Nonparametric Approaches to Generalized Linear Models	213