[R] R glm

Liaw, Andy andy_liaw at merck.com
Thu Sep 23 20:40:01 CEST 2004


As ?glm says, see ?family.

Andy

> From: Kahra Hannu
> 
> In Venables & Ripley: Modern Applied Statistics with S 
> (MASS), (4th edition), on page 184 there is a table "Families 
> and link functions" that gives you the available links with 
> different families. The default and the only link with the 
> gaussian family is identity.
> 
> ciao,
> Hannu Kahra
> 
> From: Shuangge Ma
> 
> Hello:
> would you please help me with the following glm question?
> 
> for the R function glm, what I understand is: once you specify the
> "family", then the link function is fixed.
> 
> My question is: is it possible I use, for example, "log" link 
> function,
> but the estimation approach for the guassian family?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shuangge Ma, Ph.D.
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