[Rd] Allowed quasibinomial links (PR#8851)
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Thu May 11 12:24:37 CEST 2006
This was already corrected in R-devel (including allowing cauchit): I have
moved the relevant part of the fix to R-patched now.
On Wed, 10 May 2006, henric.nilsson at statisticon.se wrote:
> Full_Name: Henric Nilsson
> Version: 2.3.0 Patched (2006-05-09 r38014)
> OS: Windows 2000 SP4
> Submission from: (NULL) (83.253.9.137)
>
>
> When supplying an unavailable link to `quasibinomial', the error message looks
> strange. E.g.
>> quasibinomial("x")
> Error in quasibinomial("x") : 'x' link not available for quasibinomial family,
> available links are "logit", ", ""probit" and "cloglog"
> ^^^^^^^^
> Clearly, something's missing. A quick peek in the code reveals that `log' is
> allowed, but is missing from the above list.
>
> Furthermore, shouldn't `quasibinomial' also allow the `cauchit' link?
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