Examples

Linear regression

julia> using DataFrames, GLM

julia> data = DataFrame(X=[1,2,3], Y=[2,4,7])
3×2 DataFrames.DataFrame
│ Row │ X     │ Y     │
│     │ Int64 │ Int64 │
├─────┼───────┼───────┤
│ 1   │ 1     │ 2     │
│ 2   │ 2     │ 4     │
│ 3   │ 3     │ 7     │

julia> ols = lm(@formula(Y ~ X), data)
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{LinearModel{LmResp{Array{Float64,1}},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: Y ~ 1 + X

Coefficients:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                 Coef.  Std. Error      t  Pr(>|t|)  Lower 95%  Upper 95%
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)  -0.666667    0.62361   -1.07    0.4788   -8.59038    7.25704
X             2.5         0.288675   8.66    0.0732   -1.16797    6.16797
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

julia> round.(stderror(ols), digits=5)
2-element Array{Float64,1}:
 0.62361
 0.28868

julia> round.(predict(ols), digits=5)
3-element Array{Float64,1}:
 1.83333
 4.33333
 6.83333

Probit regression

julia> data = DataFrame(X=[1,2,2], Y=[1,0,1])
3×2 DataFrames.DataFrame
│ Row │ X     │ Y     │
│     │ Int64 │ Int64 │
├─────┼───────┼───────┤
│ 1   │ 1     │ 1     │
│ 2   │ 2     │ 0     │
│ 3   │ 2     │ 1     │

julia> probit = glm(@formula(Y ~ X), data, Binomial(), ProbitLink())
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel{GlmResp{Array{Float64,1},Binomial{Float64},ProbitLink},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: Y ~ 1 + X

Coefficients:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                Coef.  Std. Error      z  Pr(>|z|)  Lower 95%  Upper 95%
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)   9.63839     293.909   0.03    0.9738   -566.414    585.69
X            -4.81919     146.957  -0.03    0.9738   -292.849    283.211
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Negative binomial regression

julia> using GLM, RDatasets

julia> quine = dataset("MASS", "quine")
146×5 DataFrames.DataFrame
│ Row │ Eth          │ Sex          │ Age          │ Lrn          │ Days  │
│     │ Categorical… │ Categorical… │ Categorical… │ Categorical… │ Int32 │
├─────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼───────┤
│ 1   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ SL           │ 2     │
│ 2   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ SL           │ 11    │
│ 3   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ SL           │ 14    │
│ 4   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ AL           │ 5     │
│ 5   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ AL           │ 5     │
│ 6   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ AL           │ 13    │
│ 7   │ A            │ M            │ F0           │ AL           │ 20    │
⋮
│ 139 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 22    │
│ 140 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 3     │
│ 141 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 3     │
│ 142 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 5     │
│ 143 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 15    │
│ 144 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 18    │
│ 145 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 22    │
│ 146 │ N            │ F            │ F3           │ AL           │ 37    │

julia> nbrmodel = glm(@formula(Days ~ Eth+Sex+Age+Lrn), quine, NegativeBinomial(2.0), LogLink())
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel{GlmResp{Array{Float64,1},NegativeBinomial{Float64},LogLink},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: Days ~ 1 + Eth + Sex + Age + Lrn

Coefficients:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                  Coef.  Std. Error      z  Pr(>|z|)   Lower 95%   Upper 95%
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)   2.88645      0.227144  12.71    <1e-36   2.44125     3.33164
Eth: N       -0.567515     0.152449  -3.72    0.0002  -0.86631    -0.26872
Sex: M        0.0870771    0.159025   0.55    0.5840  -0.224606    0.398761
Age: F1      -0.445076     0.239087  -1.86    0.0627  -0.913678    0.0235251
Age: F2       0.0927999    0.234502   0.40    0.6923  -0.366816    0.552416
Age: F3       0.359485     0.246586   1.46    0.1449  -0.123814    0.842784
Lrn: SL       0.296768     0.185934   1.60    0.1105  -0.0676559   0.661191
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

julia> nbrmodel = negbin(@formula(Days ~ Eth+Sex+Age+Lrn), quine, LogLink())
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel{GlmResp{Array{Float64,1},NegativeBinomial{Float64},LogLink},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: Days ~ 1 + Eth + Sex + Age + Lrn

Coefficients:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                  Coef.  Std. Error      z  Pr(>|z|)   Lower 95%   Upper 95%
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)   2.89453      0.227415  12.73    <1e-36   2.4488      3.34025
Eth: N       -0.569341     0.152656  -3.73    0.0002  -0.868541   -0.270141
Sex: M        0.0823881    0.159209   0.52    0.6048  -0.229655    0.394431
Age: F1      -0.448464     0.238687  -1.88    0.0603  -0.916281    0.0193536
Age: F2       0.0880506    0.235149   0.37    0.7081  -0.372834    0.548935
Age: F3       0.356955     0.247228   1.44    0.1488  -0.127602    0.841513
Lrn: SL       0.292138     0.18565    1.57    0.1156  -0.0717297   0.656006
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

julia> println("Estimated theta = ", round(nbrmodel.model.rr.d.r, digits=5))
Estimated theta = 1.27489

Julia and R comparisons

An example of a simple linear model in R is

> coef(summary(lm(optden ~ carb, Formaldehyde)))
               Estimate  Std. Error    t value     Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 0.005085714 0.007833679  0.6492115 5.515953e-01
carb        0.876285714 0.013534536 64.7444207 3.409192e-07

The corresponding model with the GLM package is

julia> using GLM, RDatasets

julia> form = dataset("datasets", "Formaldehyde")
6×2 DataFrame
│ Row │ Carb     │ OptDen   │
│     │ Float64⍰ │ Float64⍰ │
├─────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1   │ 0.1      │ 0.086    │
│ 2   │ 0.3      │ 0.269    │
│ 3   │ 0.5      │ 0.446    │
│ 4   │ 0.6      │ 0.538    │
│ 5   │ 0.7      │ 0.626    │
│ 6   │ 0.9      │ 0.782    │

julia> lm1 = fit(LinearModel, @formula(OptDen ~ Carb), form)
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{LinearModel{LmResp{Array{Float64,1}},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: OptDen ~ 1 + Carb

───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                  Coef.  Std. Error      t  Pr(>|t|)   Lower 95%  Upper 95%
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)  0.00508571  0.00783368   0.65    0.5516  -0.0166641  0.0268355
Carb         0.876286    0.0135345   64.74    <1e-6    0.838708   0.913864
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

A more complex example in R is

> coef(summary(lm(sr ~ pop15 + pop75 + dpi + ddpi, LifeCycleSavings)))
                 Estimate   Std. Error    t value     Pr(>|t|)
(Intercept) 28.5660865407 7.3545161062  3.8841558 0.0003338249
pop15       -0.4611931471 0.1446422248 -3.1885098 0.0026030189
pop75       -1.6914976767 1.0835989307 -1.5609998 0.1255297940
dpi         -0.0003369019 0.0009311072 -0.3618293 0.7191731554
ddpi         0.4096949279 0.1961971276  2.0881801 0.0424711387

with the corresponding Julia code

julia> LifeCycleSavings = dataset("datasets", "LifeCycleSavings")
50×6 DataFrame
│ Row │ Country        │ SR       │ Pop15    │ Pop75    │ DPI      │ DDPI     │
│     │ String⍰        │ Float64⍰ │ Float64⍰ │ Float64⍰ │ Float64⍰ │ Float64⍰ │
├─────┼────────────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┼──────────┤
│ 1   │ Australia      │ 11.43    │ 29.35    │ 2.87     │ 2329.68  │ 2.87     │
│ 2   │ Austria        │ 12.07    │ 23.32    │ 4.41     │ 1507.99  │ 3.93     │
│ 3   │ Belgium        │ 13.17    │ 23.8     │ 4.43     │ 2108.47  │ 3.82     │
│ 4   │ Bolivia        │ 5.75     │ 41.89    │ 1.67     │ 189.13   │ 0.22     │
│ 5   │ Brazil         │ 12.88    │ 42.19    │ 0.83     │ 728.47   │ 4.56     │
│ 6   │ Canada         │ 8.79     │ 31.72    │ 2.85     │ 2982.88  │ 2.43     │
│ 7   │ Chile          │ 0.6      │ 39.74    │ 1.34     │ 662.86   │ 2.67     │
⋮
│ 43  │ United Kingdom │ 7.81     │ 23.27    │ 4.46     │ 1813.93  │ 2.01     │
│ 44  │ United States  │ 7.56     │ 29.81    │ 3.43     │ 4001.89  │ 2.45     │
│ 45  │ Venezuela      │ 9.22     │ 46.4     │ 0.9      │ 813.39   │ 0.53     │
│ 46  │ Zambia         │ 18.56    │ 45.25    │ 0.56     │ 138.33   │ 5.14     │
│ 47  │ Jamaica        │ 7.72     │ 41.12    │ 1.73     │ 380.47   │ 10.23    │
│ 48  │ Uruguay        │ 9.24     │ 28.13    │ 2.72     │ 766.54   │ 1.88     │
│ 49  │ Libya          │ 8.89     │ 43.69    │ 2.07     │ 123.58   │ 16.71    │
│ 50  │ Malaysia       │ 4.71     │ 47.2     │ 0.66     │ 242.69   │ 5.08     │

julia> fm2 = fit(LinearModel, @formula(SR ~ Pop15 + Pop75 + DPI + DDPI), LifeCycleSavings)
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{LinearModel{LmResp{Array{Float64,1}},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: SR ~ 1 + Pop15 + Pop75 + DPI + DDPI

Coefficients:
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                    Coef.   Std. Error      t  Pr(>|t|)    Lower 95%    Upper 95%
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)  28.5661       7.35452       3.88    0.0003  13.7533      43.3788
Pop15        -0.461193     0.144642     -3.19    0.0026  -0.752518    -0.169869
Pop75        -1.6915       1.0836       -1.56    0.1255  -3.87398      0.490983
DPI          -0.000336902  0.000931107  -0.36    0.7192  -0.00221225   0.00153844
DDPI          0.409695     0.196197      2.09    0.0425   0.0145336    0.804856
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

The glm function (or equivalently, fit(GeneralizedLinearModel, ...)) works similarly to the R glm function except that the family argument is replaced by a Distribution type and, optionally, a Link type. The first example from ?glm in R is

glm> ## Dobson (1990) Page 93: Randomized Controlled Trial : (slightly modified)
glm> counts <- c(18,17,15,20,10,21,25,13,13)

glm> outcome <- gl(3,1,9)

glm> treatment <- gl(3,3)

glm> print(d.AD <- data.frame(treatment, outcome, counts))
  treatment outcome counts
1         1       1     18
2         1       2     17
3         1       3     15
4         2       1     20
5         2       2     10
6         2       3     21
7         3       1     25
8         3       2     13
9         3       3     13

glm> glm.D93 <- glm(counts ~ outcome + treatment, family=poisson())

glm> anova(glm.D93)
Analysis of Deviance Table

Model: poisson, link: log

Response: counts

Terms added sequentially (first to last)


          Df Deviance Resid. Df Resid. Dev
NULL                          8    10.3928
outcome    2   5.2622         6     5.1307
treatment  2   0.0132         4     5.1175

glm> ## No test:
glm> summary(glm.D93)

Call:
glm(formula = counts ~ outcome + treatment, family = poisson())

Deviance Residuals: 
      1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8        9  
-0.6122   1.0131  -0.2819  -0.2498  -0.9784   1.0777   0.8162  -0.1155  -0.8811  

Coefficients:
            Estimate Std. Error z value Pr(>|z|)    
(Intercept)   3.0313     0.1712  17.711   <2e-16 ***
outcome2     -0.4543     0.2022  -2.247   0.0246 *  
outcome3     -0.2513     0.1905  -1.319   0.1870    
treatment2    0.0198     0.1990   0.100   0.9207    
treatment3    0.0198     0.1990   0.100   0.9207    
---
Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1

(Dispersion parameter for poisson family taken to be 1)

    Null deviance: 10.3928  on 8  degrees of freedom
Residual deviance:  5.1175  on 4  degrees of freedom
AIC: 56.877

Number of Fisher Scoring iterations: 4

In Julia this becomes

julia> using DataFrames, CategoricalArrays, GLM

julia> dobson = DataFrame(Counts    = [18.,17,15,20,10,21,25,13,13],
                          Outcome   = categorical([1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3]),
                          Treatment = categorical([1,1,1,2,2,2,3,3,3]))
9×3 DataFrame
│ Row │ Counts  │ Outcome      │ Treatment    │
│     │ Float64 │ Categorical… │ Categorical… │
├─────┼─────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┤
│ 1   │ 18.0    │ 1            │ 1            │
│ 2   │ 17.0    │ 2            │ 1            │
│ 3   │ 15.0    │ 3            │ 1            │
│ 4   │ 20.0    │ 1            │ 2            │
│ 5   │ 10.0    │ 2            │ 2            │
│ 6   │ 21.0    │ 3            │ 2            │
│ 7   │ 25.0    │ 1            │ 3            │
│ 8   │ 13.0    │ 2            │ 3            │
│ 9   │ 13.0    │ 3            │ 3            │


julia> gm1 = fit(GeneralizedLinearModel, @formula(Counts ~ Outcome + Treatment), dobson, Poisson())
StatsModels.DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel{GlmResp{Array{Float64,1},Poisson{Float64},LogLink},DensePredChol{Float64,LinearAlgebra.Cholesky{Float64,Array{Float64,2}}}},Array{Float64,2}}

Formula: Counts ~ 1 + Outcome + Treatment

Coefficients:
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
                   Coef.  Std. Error      z  Pr(>|z|)  Lower 95%   Upper 95%
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
(Intercept)    3.03128      0.171155  17.71    <1e-69   2.69582    3.36674
Outcome: 2    -0.454255     0.202171  -2.25    0.0246  -0.850503  -0.0580079
Outcome: 3    -0.251314     0.190476  -1.32    0.1870  -0.624641   0.122012
Treatment: 2   0.0198026    0.199017   0.10    0.9207  -0.370264   0.409869
Treatment: 3   0.0198026    0.199017   0.10    0.9207  -0.370264   0.409869
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

julia> round(deviance(gm1), digits=5)
5.11746