R help - Jun 1998 - R-beta: glm bug

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Jim Lindsey <jlindsey at luc.ac.be> writes:
> 
> This is a bug that I already sent in for R61 but somehow it did not
> make R62:
>   line 556 of glm.R should be
> x$deviance.resid <- quantile(x$deviance.resid,na.rm=T)
>   otherwise, summary stops dead with certain data
Fixed now. Bug tracking system high on my agenda...

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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Jim Lindsey wrote:
(snip)
> I might also say that I strongly object to the stars and significance
> levels in summary (sorry, Martin, we already discussed this). I
> consider fixed level testing to be bad statistics; at worst, a P-value
> should be given if nothing better (confidence or credibility
> intervals) is available. I do not want my students seeing such stars
> and fixed levels. Make it an option if you like but not the default
> display with summary().
>   Jim
  I agree!  Is there a good way to set an option which goes to a print 
method (in this case print.summary.lm)?  Would it have to be a global 
option? 


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