Re: [R-sig-eco] glm(binomial) vs. logistf

2015-10-29 Thread Gavin Simpson
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Re: [R-sig-eco] glm(binomial) vs. logistf

2015-10-29 Thread Drew Tyre
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[R-sig-eco] glm(binomial) vs. logistf

2015-10-29 Thread Martin Weiser
Dear friends, Is there any reason why to run logistic regression (binomial response) by glm() and not by logistf() by default? In particular when having sparse data (e.g. 8 presences in 100 samples), frequently with quasi-separation (all presences at one level of the predictor, together with many