R help - Dec 2005 - function cv.glm in library 'boot'

Hi, everyone, 
I have a question regarding function cv.glm in library
'boot'. 
Basically cv.glm can  calculate the estimated K-fold
cross-validation prediction error for generalized
linear models. My question is this: if I am fitting a
logit model, what kind of threshold will it use to
calculate the prediction error (saved in 'delta')? It
will use 0.5 as the threshold or pick a threshold such
that the prediction error reaches its minimum?

Thank you!

Best wishes,
Jun

Please do RTFM.  It uses the cost function given by its 'cost' argument.

Using your suggestion to choose the threshold is not honest (in the 
technical sense of the word).

On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Jun Ding wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> I have a question regarding function cv.glm in library
> 'boot'.
> Basically cv.glm can  calculate the estimated K-fold
> cross-validation prediction error for generalized
> linear models. My question is this: if I am fitting a
> logit model, what kind of threshold will it use to
> calculate the prediction error (saved in 'delta')? It
> will use 0.5 as the threshold or pick a threshold such
> that the prediction error reaches its minimum?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best wishes,
> Jun
>
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