>>>>> Ben Bolker
>>>>> on Sun, 17 Jun 2018 11:40:38 -0400 writes:
> FWIW p. 206 of the White Book gives the following for
> names(binomial()): family, names, link, inverse, deriv,
> initialize, variance, deviance, weight.
> So $aic wasn't there In The Beginning. I haven't done
> any more archaeology to try to figure out when/by whom it
> was first introduced ...
Thank you Ben.
I think I was already suggesting that it was by Simon and Ross
and we cannot know who of the two.
> Section 6.3.3, on extending families, doesn't give any
> other relevant info.
> A patch for src/library/stats/man/family.Rd below: please
> check what I've said about $aic and $mu.eta to make sure
> they're correct! I can submit this to the r bug list if
> preferred.
I've spent quite some time checking this - to some extent.
Thank you for the patch. I will use an even slightly extended
version ((and using the correct '\eqn{\eta}{eta}' )).
Thank you indeed.
Martin
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