?offset : you can specify a different intercept for each case, or a common one.
Or you could just use lm (y - 3 ~ 0 +x), but offset() works better for prediction. On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Benjamin Zuckerberg wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Quick question...is there a way of specifying a y-intercept value > within a lm statement. For example, if I wanted to specify the > regression to pass through the origin I would enter lm(y~0+x). But > can I specify an actual term such as 1,2,3,4, etc. as an intercept > value? Thank you! > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.