Great,
Thanks,
Michael

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Rolf Turner <r.turner@auckland.ac.nz>wrote:

>
> On 14/10/2008, at 9:42 AM, Michael Just wrote:
>
>  What is the difference when including or not including the intercept when
>> using lm()?
>>
>> x.noint <- lm(weight ~ group - 1))# omitting intercept
>> x <- lm(weight ~ group))
>>
>> This has nothing to do with forcing the intercept to 0, correct?
>>
>
> On the contrary.  This is *exactly* what it means.
>
>        cheers,
>
>                Rolf Turner
>
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