Hi Douglas, I just tested this out, if the conditional expectation function is E[Y|X] = F(X), and glm returns fitted F, then predict() returns fitted F evaluated at X.
Bradley On Monday, September 1, 2014 10:24:07 AM UTC-5, Douglas Bates wrote: > > On Monday, September 1, 2014 9:48:46 AM UTC-5, Bradley Setzler wrote: >> >> Thanks Taylor, added predict method to documentation. >> > > It may be useful to clarify the scale of the values returned by predict. > Is it the scale of the linear predictor or the scale of the mean response? > For the "Normal" family it doesn't matter because the link is the identity > link. For other families the mean response and the linear predictor are > different. The predict function returns a mean response vector. > > It should also be possible to use > fitted(m) > to extract the fitted values on the scale of the mean response. >
