[R] glm -gamma errors

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dr. Peter Schlattmann wrote:

>
> Dear list,
>
> I am looking for a way to fix the scale parameter when fitting a
> generalized linear model with gamma errors and log link.
>
> Is there something like "SCALE" such as in GLIM?
>

No. Because it doesn't affect the answers we don't provide a way to
specify it.

It does affect standard errors and the other output of summary.glm, so
this function does have a dispersion= argument.

	-thomas