[R] Re: regression diagnostics [Re: two new packages]

[John Fox]

At 03:00 PM 28/04/2001 +0200, Martin Maechler wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Fox <jfox at mcmaster.ca> writes:
>
>     John> I've prepared preliminary versions of two packages that I plan
>     John> eventually to contribute to CRAN:
>
>     John> car (for "Companion to Applied Regression") is a package that
>     John> provides a variety of functions in support of linear and
>     John> generalized linear models, including regression diagnostics
>     John> (e.g., studentized residuals, hat-values, Cook's distances,
>     John> dfbeta, dfbetas,
>
>the above are all already in standard R!
>Did you look at ?influence.measures  and the functions
>mentioned on that help page?
>
>I believe these are all correct for glm objects (which inherit from "lm"),
>as well.  Otherwise, we'd rather like to see bug reports!

Dear Martin,

I was aware of these functions (and indeed use a slightly reworked version 
of lm.influence to do the basic computations).

The hat-values from influence.measures() in the base package are correct 
for glm's, but there is no hatvalues function. (There is a hat function 
that takes a model-matrix as its argument.) The dfbetas function in the 
base package is correct for glm's; there is no dfbeta function, although 
the values are available from lm.influence. The point of adding hatvalues 
and dfbeta is primarily to attach case names to the values.

The rstudent function in the base package isn't quite right for glm's; I 
provide a generic function with methods for lm and glm objects; likewise 
for Cook's D.

As a general matter, it's not hard to get much of what's in the car package 
from functions in base R (although some of what's provided is more 
ambitious). The point was to make some of these things more convenient, 
which I hope will encourage their use, particularly by (my) students.

Regards,
  John


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  John Fox
  Department of Sociology
  McMaster University
  email: jfox at McMaster.ca
  web: www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox
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