deviance residuals in binomial GLM (PR#399)

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 faraway@umich.edu wrote:

> Full_Name: Julian Faraway
> Version: .90.1
> OS: Linux+NT
> Submission from: (NULL) (141.211.66.172)
> 
> 
> In the following example, the deviance residuals are not correctly calculated:
> 
> > dead <- c(2,8,15,23,27)
> > y <- cbind(dead,30-dead)
> > conc <- 0:4
> > g <- glm(y ~ conc,family=binomial)
> > residuals(g)
> [1] -0.451015  0.359696       NaN  0.064302 -0.204493
> Warning message: 
> NaNs produced in: sqrt((object$family$dev.resids)(y, mu, wts)) 
> 
> The third residual should be zero.

Yes, and it is computed as sqrt(-5.169943e-21) on my machine. I have
committed a fix for 0.99.0


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