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checklink {gamlss.dist} | R Documentation

## Set the Right Link Function for Specified Parameter and Distribution

### Description

This function is used within the distribution family specification of a GAMLSS model to define the right link for each of the parameters of the distribution. This function should not be called by the user unless he/she specify a new distribution family or wishes to change existing link functions in the parameters.

### Usage

    checklink(which.link = NULL, which.dist = NULL, link = NULL, link.List = NULL)

### Arguments

`which.link` | which parameter link e.g. `which.link="mu.link"`
`which.dist` | which distribution family e.g. `which.dist="Cole.Green"`
`link` | a repetition of `which.link` e.g. `link=substitute(mu.link)`
`link.List` | what link function are required e.g. `link.List=c("inverse", "log", "identity")`

### Value

Defines the right link for each parameter

### Author(s)

Calliope Akantziliotou

### References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A. and Akantziliotou C. (2006) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.org/).

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A., Heller G., Voudouris V., and De Bastiani F., (2017) Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R, Chapman and Hall/CRC.

### See Also

`gamlss.family`

[Package gamlss.dist version 5.0-2 Index]