[Rd] nobs() and logLik()

[Michael Friendly]

On 1/20/2012 1:42 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> One reason that I can see for people to use zero weights rather than
> 'subset' is that fitted() and predict() in the former case readily
> produce fitted values for the observations that received a zero weight.
>
Another is that including the case of zero weights naturally allows a 
variety of simple robust methods via a weight function that descends to 
0.  A discontinuity at 0 in the handling of weights prevents this use.

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