[R] anova.glm() and deviance/df

Prof Brian Ripley
2003-07-04T17:47:55Z

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Henric Nilsson wrote:

> Is seems to me that R doesn't allow correct F-tests to be computed in
anova.glm
> after estimating the dispersion parameter by deviance/df. Or does it?

It does when they are correct, e.g. for a Gaussian family.


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