[Rd] Covergence FLAG in glm (PR#7235)

[maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch]

>>>>> "daniel" == daniel jeske <daniel.jeske at ucr.edu>
>>>>>     on Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:10:40 +0200 (CEST) writes:

    daniel> Full_Name: Daniel R Jeske Version: 1.8.1 OS: Windows
    daniel> 2000 Submission from: (NULL) (138.23.228.79)


    daniel> We have just noticed that when you use glm() it
    daniel> seems the logical output 'converged' is always TRUE.
    daniel> The same data set that shows FALSE in version 1.7.1
    daniel> shows TRUE in 1.8.1.  And I know that FALSE is the
    daniel> correct answer...so it seems like we cannot trust
    daniel> the 'converged' flag for glm() in version 1.8.1
    daniel> ?????

I'm pretty sure you're wrong:

The  NEWS  file for 1.8.0  contains

>>    o	   The defaults for glm.control(epsilon=1e-8, maxit=25) have been
>>         tightened: this will produce more accurate results, slightly slower.

Hence, compared to 1.7.1, glm() in your (still very outdated!!)
version 1.8.1 will by default use more iterations and may well
converge in cases it didn't in 1.7.1 

If there weren't such cases, the change wouldn't have been
worth!

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Regards,
Martin Maechler