Re: [R] overdispersion

2007-01-12 Thread John Maindonald
(Building 27) Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200. On 12 Jan 2007, at 10:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Peter Dalgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12 January 2007 5:04:26 AM To: evaiannario [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R

Re: [R] overdispersion

2007-01-12 Thread Peter Dalgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R] overdispersion evaiannario wrote: How can I eliminate the overdispersion for binary data apart the use of the quasibinomial? There is no such thing as overdispersion for binary data

Re: [R] overdispersion

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Dalgaard
evaiannario wrote: How can I eliminate the overdispersion for binary data apart the use of the quasibinomial? There is no such thing as overdispersion for binary data. (The variance of a two-point distribution is a known function of the mean.) If what you want to do is include random effects