[R] back transforming output from negative binomial

Dear all, I used the glm.nb with the default values from the MASS package to run a negative binomial regression. Here is a simple example: set.seed(123) y - c( rep(0, 30), rpois(70, lambda=2) ) smoke - factor( sample( c(NO, YES), 100, replace=T ) ) height - c( rnorm(30,

Re: [R] back transforming output from negative binomial

Adaikalavan Ramasamy a.ramasamy at imperial.ac.uk writes: Dear all, I used the glm.nb with the default values from the MASS package to run a negative binomial regression. Here is a simple example: [snip -- thanks for the example!] The question now is how do I report the results, say, for

Re: [R] back transforming output from negative binomial

Adaikalavan Ramasamy wrote: Ben, fantastic. Thank you for confirming it. One more question. What do you call the back transformed variable? In my domain, people use something called the ratio of mean but I am not sure if it is the same. I am not what the ratio is between. It depends.