Re: [R] fitting data to exponential distribution with glm

2003-06-10 Thread Adelchi Azzalini
On Tuesday 10 June 2003 17:31, Masayoshi Hayashi wrote: I am learning glm function, but how do you fit data using exponential distribution with glm? The Gamma family is parametrised in glm() by two parameters: mean and dispersion; the "dispersion" regulates the shape. So

Re: [R] fitting data to exponential distribution with glm

2003-06-10 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
An exponential distribution is a gamma distribution, and as far as fitting the MLE of the coefficients all gammas give the same MLEs. (You can specify the dispersion and hence that the gamma is exponential when asking for summaries, anova, etc.) On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Masayoshi Hayashi wrote: I