[R] glm

[Murray Jorgensen]

Just as a matter of interest, how did this strange form for the LHS of
binomial
glms evolve? When my students ask I usually mutter something about a smooth
generalization to the multinomial case, but I've no idea if this was really
the
motivation for doing things this way.

Murray Jorgensen

At 11:42 AM 20-12-00 -0500, Robert Gentleman wrote:
>On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:01:44PM +0100, Oscar wrote:
>> It was my fault, as you have seen. Y matrix must contain successes and
failures, and not successes and trials.
>> Sorry for my ignorance and thanks a lot for your help.
>> 
>> Oscar
>
>  This is a very good argument for a more sophisticated modeling
>paradigm where the lefthand side must be a Binomial object. Filling
>this up correctly is often easier and more straight forward than
>trying to figure out what is wanted at fit time.
>
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The first one does, but the second and third don't, now the fourth . . .
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