[R] glm and overdispersion

[John Fox]

Dear Alexandre,

The Anova function in the car package by default will calculate F-tests 
(specified by test="F") using a dispersion estimate based on the Pearson 
residuals. See ?Anova for details.

I hope that this helps,
  John

At 12:04 PM 2/18/2003 +0100, Hardouin Loïc wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am performing glm with binomial family and my data show slight
>overdispersion (HF<1.5). Nevertheless, in order to take into account for
>this heterogeneity though weak, I use F-test rather than Chi-square
>(Krackow & Tkadlec, 2001). But surprisingly, outputs of this two tests
>are exactly similar. What is the reason and how can I scale the output
>by overdispersion ??
>
>Thank you,
>
>Alexandre MILLON

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