[Rd] How do I know if the deviance of a glm fit was fixed?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Duncan Murdoch wrote:

> I'm writing functions that need to behave differently for
> GLMs like binomial and Poisson with fixed deviance, and those like
> normal or gamma or quasi where the deviance is estimated from the
> data.  Given a glm object, is there a simple way to tell this
> directly, or do I have to look at the name of the family?

Did you mean dispersion fixed?

S/R do not take the dispersion into account: it is not in the fit.
It is used by the summary, predict and anova methods (and that's all as I
recall).  And they do look at the family name.

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