R. Thompson, R. J. Baker, Composite Link Functions in Generalized Linear Models, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 30, No ...

Many data are suitably modeled by functions consisting of straight-line segments. These functions may be called piecewise-linear. Smooth functions that are related to the hyperbola and that have ...

Such functions are called linear, for reasons that I'll explain soon enough (well, we generally want another condition for linear functions involving scalar multiples of the variable, but I'll ...

However, this cannot easily be achieved whilst retaining the conventional non-linear transfer functions, known as gamma curves, which were designed for CRT displays.