[R] summary.glm objects

[Sundar Dorai-Raj]

> 
> > 
> > I´m having problems in the following lines:
> > 
> > lms <- summary(fit.model) # fit.model is a glm from gaussian
> > family
> > s <- lms$sigma
> 
> s <- lms$deviance/lms$df.residual
> 
> Deviance is a more general term than standard deviation when 
> fitting non-gaussian models.

Sorry, make that "variance" rather than "standard deviation." To obtain
an estimate of s, just take the sqrt.

Sundar

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