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poisson family is supported in latest master branch.
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> On Jun 10, 2016, at 12:14, april_ZMQ wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm a student who are working on a data analysis project with sparkR.
>
> I found out that GLM (generalized linear model) only supports two types of
> distribution, "gaussian" and "binomial".
> However, our project is requiring the "poisson" distribution. Meanwhile, I
> found out that sparkR was supporting "poisson"before but now this function
> is closed. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12566
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12566>
>
> Is there any approaches that I can use the previous official package of
> poisson distribution in SparkR instead?
>
> Thank you very much!
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