Github user actuaryzhang commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/16740 @sethah Your formula for offset does not seem to be a general solution, and I'm not sure if there exists an analytical formula, in particular when the link function is not identity or log. In GLM, the normal equation for the coefficient is: (y - mu) * w = 0. When there is offset, mu = link.inv(intcpt + offset). Take the case where link.inv is inverse as an example, then we have (y - inverse(intcpt + offset)) * w = 0. This is nonlinear and has to be solved iteratively, right? The following is a simple R example to show that the formula you provided does not recover the coefficient. ``` set.seed(11) off <- rlnorm(200) a <- 0.52 mu <- 1/(a + off) y <- rgamma(200, 1, scale = mu) f <- glm(y~1, offset = off, family = Gamma()) coef(f) 1/mean(y - off) ```
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