[R] glm: offset

[John Sorkin]

R 2.6.0
Windows XP

A question about running a generalized linear model.

I am running a glm with
(1) a poisson distribution and a log link:
   family=poisson(link = "log")
and an offset.
I would like to know if I should express the offset as the log of the offset value, i.e.
offset=log(NumUniqPt)
or as:
offset=NumUniqPt

I suspect I need to use the log, bu t I can't find any discussion of this in MASS 1994 or on the man page for glm.
Thanks 
John


John Sorkin M.D., Ph.D.
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