R-beta: standard-errors-glm

[Bill Venables]

Helgi Tomasson writes:

 > out <- glm(....)
 > summary(out)

 > I want to get the standard errors from the output.

> SE <- summary(out)$coef[, 2]

 > How do I get the covariance matrix of the estimates?

> summary(out)$covmat

If you want several things from the summary it is less
computation to create the object once and then extract them.

> out <- glm(...)
> sout <- summary(out)
> sout
 .
 .
 .
 
> SE <- sout$coef[, 2]
> Vm <- sout$covmat

Also

> names(sout)

gives a good idea what else is buried in the summary object.
Remember that when you print an object you don't necessarily see
everything that is there.  (This is a feature, not a bug!)

-- 
Bill Venables, Head, Dept of Statistics,    Tel.: +61 8 8303 5418
University of Adelaide,                     Fax.: +61 8 8303 3696
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