On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Akram Khaleghei Ghosheh balagh <a.khaleg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello ; > > Do you know what is the default value of starting value in glm ? glm(..., > start=c(),... ) > I know that it is NULL by default but it need a value to start iteration . > what is this value?
Actually the typical call to glm ends up setting a value of mu and eta from which the parameter values are calculated on the first iteration. See the initialize component for the particular family in which you are interested to see how it creates mustart. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.
