[R] linear regression: evaluating the result Q

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, RenE J.V. Bertin wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:03:09 +0100 (BST), Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote regarding
> "Re: [R] linear regression: evaluating the result Q"
> 
> Thank you, that should get me going into the right direction!
> 
> 8-) Well, for rlm no, as it is not least-squares fitting and R^2 is very 
> 8-) suseptible to outliers.  For glm, not really unless it is a Gaussian 
> 8-) model.
> 
> 	This is what I feared. How then would one evaluate the goodness of
> an rlm fit, on a comparable 0-1 scale?

Via the estimated robust scales.

> 8-) > Aside from question 2), what is the best way to compare
> 8-) > the calculated slope with another slope (say of the unity line)?
> 8-) 
> 8-) Use offset, as in y ~ x + offset(x) and test for the coefficient of x to
> 8-) be zero.  (That's R only, BTW.)
> 
> offset seems to be ignored by rlm(), is that correct? (Which isn't too
> much of a problem as long as confint operates correctly on rlm objects.)

Yes -- rlm was written before R existed.

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