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Regression with log-link or Poisson regression is a model that can be used to study the relative change in an outcome variable. In the log-link regression model, the antilog of each coefficient describes the relative difference in the outcome variable associated with each one-unit difference in the predictor variable.

The logit link maps the probability of the individual having the disease to the entire real line. The log-link function maps the probability of disease onto the negative real line, requiring the constraint that a linear predictor must be negative.

The purpose of the logit link is to take a linear combination of the covariate values (which may take any value between ±?) and convert those values to the scale of a probability, i.e., between 0 and 1. The logit link function is defined in Eq.

The log link exponentiates the linear predictors. It does not log transform the outcome variable. Where ?=predicted value of Y given X, exp(?0) = the effect on the mean of ? when X=0, and exp(?1)= the multiplicative effect on the mean of Y for a one-unit increase in X.

Regression with log-link or Poisson regression is a model that can be used to study the relative change in an outcome variable. In the log-link regression model, the antilog of each coefficient describes the relative difference in the outcome variable associated with each one-unit difference in the predictor variable.

If we log transform the model, what we are really modelling is the response variable in log units, whereas when we use a log link, the response variable stays in the original scale.

Link function - the identity link, ? = g ( E ( Y ) ) = E ( Y ) , is used; this is the simplest link function.