[R] Revolutions Blog: July Roundup

David Smith david at revolutionanalytics.com
Wed Aug 10 03:18:47 CEST 2011


Thanks, Frank! I'm actually not sure what distribution it's using
there, but I'll pass this along to Sue Ranney who created the video.

Kind regards,
# David

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Frank Harrell <f.harrell at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
> David, as always this is a terrific roundup.  I note in passing that the "big
> data" logistic function rxLogit used on the 1B observation dataset
> (impressive run time!) inappropriately used the t distribution for testing
> the coefficients in the logistic model [at least if the notation used is any
> clue].  It should have used the normal distribution.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
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