family-class {lme4} | R Documentation

## Class "family"

### Description

Family objects describe the error distributions and link functions used in generalized linear models and its extensions. It is used by functions such as `glm` and `GLMM`.

### Objects from the Class

This is an S3 style class. No objects may be created from it using `new`.

### Extends

Class `"oldClass"`, directly.

### Methods

No methods defined with class "family" in the signature.

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