I see. This is a pretty radical change to how GLM’s would be specified. I think 
the only realistic way you could make any progress on such a radical proposal 
is to undertake this change as a project on your own and then give people a 
demo of a system you’ve built that’s noticeably better than what they’re used 
to having in R.

 — John

On Aug 31, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Bradley Setzler <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, I meant for those to be in the ... term.
> 
> Let me write them explicitly for the case of 3 independent variables, X1 X2 
> X3, seriesRank=2 would be,
> 
> (intercept)
> X1.^2
> X2.^2
> X3.^2
> X1.*X2
> X1.*X3
> X2.*X3
> X1.*X2.*X3
> 
> Bradley
> 
> On Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:55:22 PM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote:
> Bradley, you’re forgetting about interactions terms.
> 
>  — John
> 
> On Aug 31, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Bradley Setzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> No problem.
>> 
>> Honestly, I'm not sure formula is a useful way to think about regression, 
>> the formula is uniquely determined from:
>> (depVar, indepVars, data, family, link)
>> 
>> so that the + symbols are redundant given family and link,
>> glm(Y ~ X1 + X2 + X3 + X4 + X5 +...., family, link)
>> 
>> and it would be nice to have an explicit intercept argument like,
>> glm(Y,X,data,family,link,intercept=true)
>> 
>> Adding to the wish list, I would like to see something like a series option 
>> for non-parametric regression,
>> glm(Y,X,data,family,link,seriesRank=2)
>> where seriesRank=2 means all of the terms X1.^2, X1.*X2, X1.*X3,...,X5.^2 
>> are included as regressors.
>> 
>> Bradley
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sunday, August 31, 2014 2:32:30 PM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote:
>> Merged. Thanks, Bradley.
>> 
>>  — John
>> 
>> On Aug 31, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Bradley Setzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thank you for suggesting this, John.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/JuliaStats/GLM.jl/pull/90
>>> 
>>> Bradley
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sunday, August 31, 2014 1:33:04 PM UTC-5, John Myles White wrote:
>>> Bradley, it’s especially easy to edit documentation because you can make a 
>>> Pull Request right from the website.
>>> 
>>>  — John
>>> 
>>> On Aug 31, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Bradley Setzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thank you Adam, this works.
>>>> 
>>>> Let me suggest that this information be included in the GLM documentation:
>>>> 
>>>> To fit a GLM model, use the function,
>>>> glm(formula, data, family, link), 
>>>> where,
>>>> - formula uses column symbols from the DataFrame data, e.g., if 
>>>> names(data)=[:Y,:X], then a valid formula is Y~X;
>>>> - data is a DataFrame which may contain NA values, the rows with NA values 
>>>> will be ignored (apparently);
>>>> - family may be chosen from Binomial(), Gamma(), Normal(), or Poisson(), 
>>>> and the parentheses are required; and,
>>>> - link may be chosen from the list in the GLM documentation, such as 
>>>> LogitLink(), and again the parentheses are required. For some families, a 
>>>> default link is available so the link argument may be left blank.
>>>> 
>>>> Bradley
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sunday, August 31, 2014 12:56:19 PM UTC-5, Adam Kapor wrote:
>>>> This works for me:
>>>> 
>>>> ```
>>>> julia> fit(GeneralizedLinearModel,Y~X,data,Binomial(),ProbitLink())
>>>> 
>>>> DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel,Float64}:
>>>> 
>>>> Coefficients:
>>>> 
>>>>                 Estimate Std.Error     z value Pr(>|z|)
>>>> 
>>>> (Intercept)     0.430727   1.98019    0.217518   0.8278
>>>> 
>>>> X            2.37745e-17   0.91665 2.59362e-17   1.0000
>>>> 
>>>> julia> fit(GeneralizedLinearModel,Y~X,data,Binomial(),LogitLink())
>>>> 
>>>> DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel,Float64}:
>>>> 
>>>> Coefficients:
>>>> 
>>>>                  Estimate Std.Error      z value Pr(>|z|)
>>>> 
>>>> (Intercept)      0.693147   3.24037      0.21391   0.8306
>>>> 
>>>> X            -7.44332e-17       1.5 -4.96221e-17   1.0000
>>>> 
>>>> ```
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sunday, August 31, 2014 1:27:15 PM UTC-4, Bradley Setzler wrote:
>>>> Has anyone successfully performed probit or logit regression in Julia? The 
>>>> GLM documentation does not provide a generalizable example of how to use 
>>>> glm(). It gives a Poisson example without any suggestion of how to switch 
>>>> from Poisson to some other type.
>>>> 
>>>> Using the Poisson example from GLM documentation works:
>>>> 
>>>> julia> X = [1;2;3.]
>>>> julia> Y = [1;0;1.]
>>>> julia> data = DataFrame(X=X,Y=Y)
>>>> julia> fit(GeneralizedLinearModel, Y ~ X,data, Poisson())
>>>> DataFrameRegressionModel{GeneralizedLinearModel,Float64}: 
>>>> Coefficients: 
>>>> Estimate Std.Error z value Pr(>|z|) 
>>>> (Intercept) -0.405465 1.87034 -0.216787 0.8284 
>>>> X -3.91448e-17 0.8658 -4.52123e-17 1.0000 
>>>> 
>>>> But does not generalize:
>>>> 
>>>> julia> fit(GeneralizedLinearModel, Y ~ X ,data, Logit()) 
>>>> ERROR: Logit not defined
>>>> 
>>>> julia> fit(GeneralizedLinearModel, Y ~ X, data, link=:ProbitLink) 
>>>> ERROR: `fit` has no method matching fit(::Type{GeneralizedLinearModel}, 
>>>> ::Array{Float64,2}, ::Array{Float64,1})
>>>> 
>>>> julia> fit(GeneralizedLinearModel, Y ~ X, data, 
>>>> family="binomial",link="probit") 
>>>> ERROR: `fit` has no method matching fit(::Type{GeneralizedLinearModel}, 
>>>> ::Array{Float64,2}, ::Array{Float64,1})
>>>> 
>>>> ....and a dozen other similar attempts fail. 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bradley
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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