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

[Martyn Plummer]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 07:06 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> 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.

I think the documentation is misleading (On a related issue, it still
refers to the defunct glm.fit.null() function). I'll fix it.

Luke, you be using glm() instead of glm.fit().

> 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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