[Rd] a bug in glm.fit() (PR#7947)

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What is the bug?

This is the same model: the `intercept' term affects the null model, not 
the actual model.  Just look at all the output.

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 jyzz88 at gmail.com wrote:

> glm.fit() gave me the same AIC's regardless of TRUE or FALSE intercept option.
>
>> myX <- as.matrix(1:10)
>> myY <- 3+5*myX
>> foo <- glm.fit(x=myX, y=myY, family = gaussian(link = "identity"), intercept=TRUE)
>> foo$aic
> [1] 38.94657
>> foo <- glm.fit(x=myX, y=myY, family = gaussian(link = "identity"), intercept=FALSE)
>> foo$aic
> [1] 38.94657
>>  AIC(lm(myY~0+myX, data=data.frame(myY,myX)))
> [1] 38.94657
>> AIC(lm(myY~1+myX, data=data.frame(myY,myX)))
> [1] -650.9808

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