[R] glm

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Jim Lindsey wrote:

[> > Quoting me]
> > Note, though, that McCullagh and Nelder argue hard against the MLE of
> > dispersion in the gamma family.
> 
> That argument can be made when a precision interval is required for
> the dispersion parameter (conditional or REML estimate). I do not
> believe that it can be made for substituting the estimate into the
> likelihood or AIC for comparing different models which is the case in
> question here. Jim

Right, It was meant to be an aside as to why MLE estimation of the
dispersion might not be the default in R (or S). I don't think R's glm
should be quoting AICs (but then I have problems with understanding how one
compares two models on the basis of a measure whose derivation requires
each model to be true: there are extensions to AIC, like NIC and p_eff,
that avoid this).

Brian

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