[R]: performing marginal tests to glm objects

[Prof Brian Ripley]

?drop1 for the valid marginal tests.

If you want `type III' tests (which aren't marginal in the usual sense) 
see Anova in package car, which also does `type II' tests (as performed by 
drop1).

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Eve Corda wrote:

> I wonder if it is possible to obtain marginal tests for effects in
> generalized linear models. Indeed, the anova function produces
> sequential tests and it doesn't have any "type" argument to specify that
> we would like marginal tests instead, as in the similar anova function
> for lme objects.
> 

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