gordon.harrington@uni.edu
2003-Dec-12 14:11 UTC
[R] Precision of probabilities in lm or glm
I have major experimental data which appear suitably linear with the diagnostic plots of lm or glm. The probabilities for coefficients for over a dozen variables of low inter-correlation are of the order of 10e-6 to 10e-12. Analyis of trimmed data to exclude outliers increases that range to 10e-16. Such extreme data lead me to look for every possible explanation. Can anyone tell me the precision of these results for lm or glm. Am I dealing with numbers that are meaningless beyond a certain point or are there other things I should be examining in the data? -- Gordon M. Harrington Mail: 3720 Village Place, #6308 Professor Emeritus Waterloo, IA 50702-5848 University of Northern Iowa Phone: 319-291-8535 gordon.harrington at uni.edu Fax: 319-291-8491 dryfly at aya.yale.edu 319-291-8324