[R] bigglm binomial negative fitted value

[Yue Guan]

Thank you very much. I do overlook something.....

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Thomas Lumley <tlumley at uw.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Yue Guan <pipehappy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi, there
>>
>> Since glm cannot handle factors very well. I try to use bigglm like this:
>>
>> logit_model <- bigglm(responser~var1+var2+var3, data, chunksize=1000,
>> family=binomial(), weights=~trial, sandwich=FALSE)
>>
>> fitted <- predict(logit_model, data)
>>
>> only var2 is factor, var1 and var3 are numeric.
>>
>> I expect fitted should be a vector of value falls in (0,1)
>>
>> However, I get something like this:
>> str(fitted)
>>  num [1:260617, 1] -0.0564 -0.0564 -0.1817 -0.1842 -0.1852 ...
>>  - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
>>  ..$ : chr [1:260617] "1" "2" "3" "4" ...
>>  ..$ : NULL
>>
>
> As the help says, the default is predictions of the linear predictor.
> To get predictions of the probability, use type="response"
>
>   -thomas
>
> --
> Thomas Lumley
> Professor of Biostatistics
> University of Auckland