For canonical links they are the same thing (and the likelihood is log-concave), but in general NR is a poor optimizer without at least step-length adjustment.

MASS4 p.445 has an example of using a general optimizer for logistic regression.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Valeska Andreozzi wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a function to find the maximum likelihood estimates of glm using Newton Raphson metodology instead of using IWLS.

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