[Rd] glm gives incorrect results for zero-weight cases (PR#780)
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk
20 Dec 2000 13:37:55 +0100
ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk writes:
> The reason is obvious: glm.fit only ever updates eta[good], and
> zero-weight values are not `good'. So eta[weights == 0] is stuck at the
> initial values.
>
> There are two possible fixes:
>
> 1) Update eta after the final fit, and then mu. Out of range values
> could then be NA (although it looks like predict.glm does not check).
>
> 2) Update all eta and hence mu values during the iterations. This will
> apply the constraints on eta/mu at zero-weight points too, and so might
> be different.
>
> I am inclined to think that 2) is right, and that adding points with zero
> weight to the fit is not the same as omitting them.
>
> Opinions?
Just for clarification: This applies only to cases where the
parametrization is non-canonical, e.g. additive models with Poisson
response, right? And essentially the issue is that if you have a model
like lambda = a + b x and you put in a zero-weight observation with x
= 0, then that should effectively constrain a to be positive. That
does make quite good sense, yes.
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