On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Martin Henry H. Stevens wrote: > Upon examining Table 7.1 on page 184 of V&R 4th edition, I can see > where the ambiguity would arise, however. Always best to check the
No ambiguity. That book is about S, and S only supports the identity link. (Extensions in just one of R or S-PLUS are often not mentioned.) > help, I guess. > Hank > On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:04 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > No! > > > > > ?family > > > > The 'gaussian' family accepts the links '"identity"', '"log"' and > > '"inverse"'; > > > > Kahra Hannu wrote: > >> In Venables & Ripley: Modern Applied Statistics with S (MASS), (4th > >> edition), on page 184 there is a table "Families and link functions" > >> that gives you the available links with different families. The > >> default and the only link with the gaussian family is identity. > >> ciao, -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
