On Mar 15, 2011, at 14:22 , Jari Oksanen wrote: > On 15/03/11 13:17 PM, "peter dalgaard" <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Mar 15, 2011, at 04:40 , Brett Presnell wrote: >> >>> >>>>> Background: I'm currently teaching an undergrad/grad-service course from >>>>> Agresti's "Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (2nd edn)" and >>>>> deviance residuals are not used in the text. For now I'll just provide >>>>> the students with a simple function to use, but I prefer to use R's >>>>> native capabilities whenever possible. >>>> >>>> Incidentally, chisq.test will have a stdres component in 2.13.0 for >>>> much the same reason. >>> >>> Thank you. That's one more thing I won't have to provide code for >>> anymore. Coincidentally, Agresti mentioned this to me a week or two ago >>> as something that he felt was missing, so that's at least two people who >>> will be happy to see this added. >>> >> >> And of course, I was teaching a course based on Agresti & Franklin: >> "Statistics, The Art and Science of Learning from Data", when I realized that >> R was missing standardized residuals. >> > So nobody uses McCullagh & Nelder: "Generalized Linear Models" in teaching, > since they don't realize that R is missing Anscombe residuals, too? > > Cheers, Jari Oksanen >
Well, if you can read the book, you can probably write the code... The other books are for beginners who may need the convenience (and persuasion power) of standard software. -- Peter Dalgaard Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
