CanonicalFamilyExtra - Extra Canonical Link Family Objects for Generalized Linear
Models
Extra family objects in "weird" scenarios, particularly
logistic or log-linear model with unbounded or
non-binary/non-integer outcomes. Provides binomial_extra() and
poisson_extra() as generalizations of binomial() and poisson().
The use of canonical link with the corresponding working
likelihood in glm() ensures convexity, making model fitting
reliable and independent of starting value. Robert WM
Wedderburn (1974) <doi:10.1093/biomet/61.3.439> and Peter
McCullagh (1983) <doi:10.1214/aos/1176346056> justified this
method to fit generalized linear (mean) models with
quasi-/working likelihood.