[R--gR] Modelformulae: reference?
Peter Dalgaard
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Fri Aug 20 13:46:14 CEST 2004
Friedrich.Leisch at tuwien.ac.at writes:
> >>>>> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:12:34 +0100,
> >>>>> Steffen Lauritzen (SL) wrote:
>
> > Yes, I am sure this is right, thank you.
>
> You're welcome.
>
> > It has no doubt developed a bit
> > since then, possibly in a partly anarchistic way.
>
> Yes, certainly. For S, the white book is the key reference.
...although much of the "anarchy" is probably of a later date. AFAIR,
the white book model formulas basically copies Genstat notation from
1977 for the lm/glm models (introducing the ~ operator and changing
"." to ":" is about the extent of it, I think), which in turn more or
less *is* Wilkinson/Rogers. Usage in other contexts and things like
the "|" for conditioning in coplot or strata() terms came in later.
Of course the department copy of the white book is nowhere to be found
so I can't verify.
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