Look at the "tlm" function in "hett" package.
Ravi.
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> bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Andrew Gelman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 2:44 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] student-t regression in R?
>
> Is there a quick way to fit student-t regressions (that is, a regression
> with t-distributed error, ideally with the degrees-of-freedom parameter
> estimated from the data)? I can do it easily enough in Bugs, or I can
> program the log-likelihood in R and optimize using optim(), but an R
> version (if it's already been written by somebody) would be convenient,
> especially for teaching purposes. I couldn't find the Student-t as one
> of the families in "glm" but maybe it's somewhere else?
> Thanks.
> Andrew
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