[R] glm: offset

[Simon Blomberg]

Yes, use the log. I've had the same problem in the past, too. Try it on
a toy example to confirm it for yourself.

Cheers,

Simon.

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 22:01 -0500, John Sorkin wrote:
> R 2.6.0
> Windows XP
> 
> A question about running a generalized linear model.
> 
> I am running a glm with
> (1) a poisson distribution and a log link:
>    family=poisson(link = "log")
> and an offset.
> I would like to know if I should express the offset as the log of the offset value, i.e.
> offset=log(NumUniqPt)
> or as:
> offset=NumUniqPt
> 
> I suspect I need to use the log, bu t I can't find any discussion of this in MASS 1994 or on the man page for glm.
> Thanks 
> John
> 
> 
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