[Rd] print.glm() signif digits (PR#7765)
prathouz at health.bsd.uchicago.edu
prathouz at health.bsd.uchicago.edu
Sat Apr 2 06:27:42 CEST 2005
Hi -- I have found that by default the function print.glm() uses 3
significant figures when printing out null and model deviances and the
aic. Of course, this is not wrong. But if a person fitted two nested
models and compared the resulting deviances obtained from print.glm(), the
resulting hypothesis test could indeed be wrong because of this rounding.
The function summary() applied to a glm object gives a more precise
printout and I think that print.glm() ought to as well by default. Thanks
much. -- pr
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