Re: [R] Estimation of Dispersion parameter in GLM for Gamma Dist.

2007-05-25 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is discussed in the book the MASS package (sic) supports, and/or its online material (depending on the edition). On Fri, 25 May 2007, fredrik odegaard wrote: > Hi All, > could someone shed some light on what the difference between the > estimated dispersion parameter that is supplied with t

[R] Estimation of Dispersion parameter in GLM for Gamma Dist.

2007-05-25 Thread fredrik odegaard
Hi All, could someone shed some light on what the difference between the estimated dispersion parameter that is supplied with the GLM function and the one that the 'gamma.dispersion( )' function in the MASS library gives? And is there consensus for which estimated value to use? It seems that the