On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Barnet Wagman wrote:
> Does anyone know what algorithm R uses in glm, family=binomial (i.e. a
> logit model)?
>
> I assume that it's in the source somewhere, but I wasn't able to
find
> it. I'd like to know
> what file it's in (in a unix distribution of R).
src/library/base/R/glm.R, or just list the glm and glm.fit functions.
The `meat' is in glm.fit.
R uses the `standard' Nelder-Wedderburn IWLS algorithm for this problem.
That is explained in a number of places. One Bill Venables and I
particularly like is
Firth, D. (1991) Generalized linear models. Chapter 3 of Hinkley, D. V.,
Reid, N. and Snell, E. J. eds (1991) Statistical Theory and Modelling. In
Honour of Sir David Cox, FRS. London: Chapman & Hall.
Perhaps the most elementary exposition is in
A. J. Dobson (1990) "An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models"
Chapham & Hall.
which was previously
A. J. Dobson (1983) "An Introduction to Statistical Modelling".
It is a useful exercise (one I set our graduate students) to write out the
details in the logistic regression case, where some terms cancel.
--
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